The new CodeIgniter website was unveiled October 20th. Most of the reaction has been terrific, but there were a number of comments about the site design. Some of the responses: terrible, meh, needs more polish, not responsive, too old school, really hope you're still working on that design, awful, shockingly bad!
I totally agree. As one tweet pointed out, "About page asks for help with site design . So people tweet and complain about -- the site design." One of my responses has been that I was striving for a "designed by a programmer" look - I think I achieved that
What are we going to do about it?
I have suggested that I will open-source the website, as another project under bcit-ci on github. I have been strongly cautioned against doing so, until I can achieve a better separation of content from presentation. Good advice! This will happen, but not as soon as I had hoped
Instead, I would like to engage the community: what are your suggestions for the design of our website? This could be in the form of a page mockup, a CSS stylesheet that would work with it, or even just constructive text suggestions.
James Parry
Project Lead
