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Redesign: Color Revolution
I’ve been meaning to redesign this website for a while now and my first order of business was to add some color. Structurally, however, not much has changed, so regular users won’t face any new issues.
Some of the things used in this design are Lightbox 2 for some of the portfolio screeshots, and the great patterns on the middle section backgrounds are from Jason Gaylor’s Worn Photoshop brushes.
The design is still open for changes, so I’m definitely still taking feedback for this facelift.
Also, I’m sorry for any hiccups that may have happened during the transition. Copying over the new page templates and forms took a few minutes in which I’m sure the site was a wreck. The old version (elegantly titled ‘9’) can be found here
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The Ethics of Practicing Procedures on the Nearly Dead
The report from the field was not promising by any stretch, extensive trauma, and perhaps most importantly unknown “downtime” (referencing the period where the patient received no basic care like...
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The Ethics of Teaching Hospitals
I can’t imagine what the patient was thinking. Seeing my trembling hands approaching the lacerations on his face with a sharp needle. I tried to reassure him that I knew what I was doing, but the...
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Conscious Conversation: Behavioral Science
Dr. Eran Zaidel is a professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and faculty member at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. His work focuses on hemispheric specialization and interhemispheric interaction...
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Progress Report
Two years down, I’m still going. The next two years are my clinical rotations, the actual hands-on training. It’s a scary prospect, responsibilities and such; but it’s equally exciting, after...
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Why Medical School Should Be Free
There’s a lot of really great doctors out there, but unfortunately, there’s also some bad ones. That’s a problem we don’t need to have, and I think it’s caused by some problems with the...
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The Cerebellum: a model for learning in the brain
I know, it’s been a while. Busy is no excuse though, as it is becoming clear that writing for erraticwisdom was an important part of exercising certain parts of my brain that I have neglected...
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Conscious Conversation: Philosophy
Daniel Black, author of Erectlocution, was kind enough to chat with me one day and we had a great discussion – have a listen.
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The Stuff in Between
I’m actually almost normal when not agonizing over robot production details, and quite a bit has happened since I last wrote an update. First, I’ve finally graduated. I had a bit of a...
Comments
Wow, the site looks great. Much nicer looking than the last version I recall (although that was a while ago).
Nice job anyways.
Adrian Kostrubiak
Jan 13, 08:16 PM #
The new theme looks great – much more professional than my recent attempt : /
Scott at Realepicurean
Jan 13, 08:26 PM #
Wow, nice job. Very elegant-looking – I like that. It’s beautiful. The only thing I have to suggest is more padding on the comment form, and a little better spacing on the sidebar. Other than that, it’s amazing. Great work.
Steven Campbell
Jan 14, 08:46 AM #
Thanks everybody!
I’m not sure what exactly you mean Steven, but I did increase the spacing between the sidebar element groups and also bumped up the padding between form labels and on the form itself. Let me know if that helps or if you had something else in mind.
Thame
Jan 14, 10:01 AM #
Thank God you got rid of the floral pattern…looked alot like my bathroom…haha.
Looking good, though… :-D
Andrew Hamann
Jan 14, 10:01 AM #
I like the new site a lot. I think your title header and the nav bar/box are excellent.
shawn Blanc
Jan 14, 08:58 PM #
Andrew:
I know we talk about this over IM, but I’d like a chance to publicly humiliate you. Check the home page, the bathroom florals are still there :D
shawn:
Thanks alot! I like the header part too.
Thame
Jan 15, 08:13 AM #
This is much more elegant! One thing that I think you should add that I have been missing (still) is a link that directly goes to the forum. As it is now, I have to click one of the “recent posts” and navigate to the topmost level to see all the forum topics. It’s nothing big, but would be neat.
This has given me more inspiration for mine. Mine is still lacking quite a bit, and I am not sure if that is from the lack of understanding Textpattern (heh, should have learned something in the seven months I’ve been using it), or if it is just the fact that I struggle with figuring out something intuitive.
Tom Martin
Jan 20, 10:48 PM #
Hi Tom,
I know you requested that link when it fell off in my last redesign and I somehow neglected to add it yet again.
I usually don’t like mixing headline levels with links, but it seemed like the cleanest way to do it was to attach a link at that top header.
Hope it helps!
Thame
Jan 21, 03:54 PM #
That is the very place I was looking at and forgot to mention. Thanks! I don’t know how many other people looked for that, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who is benefiting from this…
Tom Martin
Jan 21, 07:06 PM #
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