Yep, the next generation of Seventh Sanctum is here, and ready for you to test at one of my experimental domains!
http://www.pageofgenerators.com/
I’ve been through my own beta testing, but I’m looking for:
- Any bugs.
- Any formatting/compatibility issues.
- How it works on mobile.
So let me know!
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
To put it simply – the site is now migrated to the new Bootstrap-wrapped design. As far as I can tell it’s done, completed, and ready for testing. Well more testing, migrating over the generators required I validate each, and now my head is filled with random.
Next up I’m going to take a little bit of a break because . . . well yeah, this has been my spare time for about a week and a half, and I haven’t had much of that. Then there’s going to be some testing, and finally, migration. Just remember after the migration I’m really going to need feedback!
If there’s one concern I have it’s that right now the site’s appearance on phones is kinda “meh.” It works, but the branding is off and the control panel scales too big. Admittedly I don’t think that’s a huge deal, but still I’d like to make it better.
Now let’s take a look at the site! (more…)
OK I’m now converting the generators over to the new code base! It’s taking effort, but it’s also going faster than I thought. Mostly it’s intense moments of thought combined with sheer “does that work . . . yeah” drudgery. It’ll get easier the more I do, but the drudgery party isn’t going to change.
So here’s a view of an active generator – my only question is the twitter bug – I probably ought to add a few more social media tools in there. Any thoughts?
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
Here’s a look at the latest site design for the generator page. A friend gave some brutally honest feedback on how the overuse of the brass bars was, well EYE WATERING and had some contrast issues. Fortunately it was Bootstrap to the rescue, and I managed to tweak the look in a way that works and seems to be multi-device friendly.
So thoughts?
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
So I’m now on to the link pages – and I’m going to need some feedback.
So let’s get to the entries . . . (more…)
Since I finalized the design, I’ve now started moving it into code. Here’s a demo of the front page.
You’ll notice that I chose the 3rd logo because that one was overwhelmingly popular – and I have to say I dig it’s mixture of complexity, simplicity, and class. Thanks for the feedback. The first logo is also going to appear in a modified form for other things, perhaps buttons or something.
I have to alter the ad space (and color) and I’m having a devil of a time getting the blogfeed to format properly. On the other hand the new components are really smooth to redesign in Bootstrap, and very easy to alter.
I removed the social media buttons as extraneous for now but I might put them back. If there’s any suggestions on how to make it easier to sync up with the Sanctum, fee free to share.
Of course the real test is plugging in live generator code because, well, that’s the critical part of the site. The big issue is getting the nicely formatted forms to work and then getting the output properly and prettily formatted – which sounds easy, but there’s some variable data and presentation in here that may be a pain. I could jam it in unformatted, but it’d be pretty boring and not have the greatest layout.
I’m trying a very non-standard linkroll/siteroll/blogroll – smaller chicklets showing associated sites. I think it actually works.
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
OK I’ve got work going on to develop a new logo for Seventh Sanctum – courtesy of the awesome Megami Studios who did the MuseHack logo. So which one do you like?
Click below to see full sized!
First Logo
Second Logo
Third Logo
What do you think?
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
Just a shout-out to the regular Seventh Sanctum users – got one of the old guard from years back who wants to revive the message boards. I’d like to see what people think.
Sure there’s a Facebook page, but it’d be good to have something completely “ours.”
So what do you guys think would help?
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
I’ve been redesigning Seventh Sanctum’s interface, looking for something more modern and more cross-device – and face it the look is a few years old. Fortunately friends have been quite helpful.
So here’s the latest design – and of course I need your feedback! The idea is to condense it and streamline it, use space better, and move the menus into responsive dropdowns. This keeps the space open for the results and lets me jack up the fonts – plus I can make it more cross-device.
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
Hey gang, this is a Seventh Sanctum Update – I’m moving them to this blog so I have less to update and because it’s one of my big projects.
This entry, however, is a placeholder for routing.
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach. He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at http://www.stevensavage.com/.
