Website Redesign

I’ve spent the last week or so redesigning my personal blog/site to make images/video/code/tables stand out more while remaining readably inline. I recoded a video walkthrough:

I got inspired by Carl Barenbrug’s site layout that features an off-center, 3-column grid that balances text readability with large inline images. I’ve seen other sites that rely on centered text and centered images for this kind of thing, but this ratio feels much more elegant to me; it evokes the golden ratio.

Carl’s site is very minimalist with low contrast elements. I retained my high-contrast, high-legibility aspects and mostly took layout styles.

The test page has a full list of example elements/rendering, but here are some before+after examples: