CSS Face Lift

The other day I was charged with implementing the realign of Energy Muse, a site I had coded last year. Energy Muse had redone their logo, and therefore wanted a site-wide facelift that would reflect their altered branding.

This was the first time that I had been involved in the realign of one of my own sites. Not to toot my own horn but I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW EASY IT WAS! Seriously, I was amazed to see a real-life zen garden type switcharoo. I did not touch the html. Not even a little bit. Uploading a few new images and an updated CSS sheet was all that was required to transform this:original home page

Into this:
home page with css face lift

The Proof Is In The Process

What was so wonderful about this experience is that I got to proove, to myself, to my partner on the project (Hong Vo of Namaste Interactive), and to our clients at Energy Muse, that the things I’ve been saying about the benefits of designing with standards are not simply idealistic and lofty hopes, but are in fact true.

I can’t even imagine what a different scenario this realign would have been if I had needed to alter the layout tables and inline images on every page of the site (about 60 of them). I saw how truly worth it it is to invest in higher quality code up front. And, I got to appreciate my own work, which is always a nice thing. ;o)

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5 Responses to “CSS Face Lift”

  • Paul Says:
    June 19th, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    Hi Mani, my fisrt post into your domain, love your work, and how easy you make it happen, another good job, as with the slashdot design.
    The zen garden was where I first saw your work, and that blew me away, that was also when I first heard of wordpress, I’m still going crazy trying to create my own theme, so if your ever lacking inspiration for blog posts, maybe you could share some tips on the whole php interaction thingy.
    I’m sure I’ll eventually get there, tis a time thing. Anyhow, in the meantime may you flourish and prosper.
    See ya

  • Viking KARWUR Says:
    June 19th, 2006 at 9:54 pm

    Cool design… Wow…

  • Kurt Says:
    August 28th, 2007 at 4:36 am

    Very nice Designs.
    I build a new Design for a xt-commerce Shop only by divs (i get mad on it) the Shop Url is http://www.emprestige.de
    It is perfekt for Search Engines look by google at z-Brand (First Site from 24.000.000 Mil.) Did you proof you styles for Search Engines?

  • Danny Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 6:11 am

    Wow, your designs are amazing!
    I wish I could make these too…

  • robert Says:
    May 3rd, 2010 at 11:26 am

    very helpful, i know you probably see these comments all the time but it really is, thank you