Freshened Up!

If this is your first time visiting the PCLO website then you probably won’t notice anything new. But if you’re a grizzled veteran of PodCamp London, well then you’re in for a treat!

When Titus and Bill started planning this years PodCamp I told them I was going to do some work for the website, it wasn’t going to be doing a complete redesign but more of an update to what was already an award winning site. I think they were a bit cautious, not wanting to ruin what we already had, both telling me not to worry about it as they were happy with it as is, and as time went on I think they thought I forgot about it; however today when you visit the PodCamp London Website you’ll see the update I promised!

Overall not much has changed, it was a lot of visual fine tuning and adjustments to make better use of the technologies available to us like some new CSS features (RGBA, Box-Shadow, Font-Face) to make the whole thing sing. But one of the biggest changes is the header. You may have seen me mention a few times on Twitter recently how I felt about illustrating trees, as I went back to the drawing board with the foliage and freshened up the whole vignette with a new backdrop of clouds, and buildings.

Speaking of the buildings; in the illustration for the first PodCamp I included the building the venue was in, the Station Park Hotel, which I thought was rather clever. But I didn’t consider that the venue might not always be at the same place, locking myself into changing the illustration if it ever did move. And this year we did just that, moving to the Research Park near the University of Western Ontario. So out went the hotel and in went the UWO tower.

Last but not least the logo got a bit of a touch up as well, optimizing it for printing, fine tuning the shapes, and resetting the typography. You likely won’t notice the difference, like much of the other changes on the site, but I think all the little and big changes made today take the website up a few notches.

If you have any questions, comments, or spot something wrong leave a comment bellow.