Hi James,
I watched your new site. You include bootstrap for dessign that i think is a good idea, but you doesn't make use all bootstrap power. Make a responsive site with this tool is easy, and you can begin from a open source responsive bootstrap template like bootstrap starter-template and then customize it creating your own css tu redefining all you want.
If you need some help about it only have to ask me, but i'm a developer, i think i really can help you more to make a good structured and usable web.
Best wishes.
(10-24-2014, 02:41 PM)jlp Wrote: 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.