I promise, I will post a more detailed write up on the specific highlights, design and functional, in the new design, but for now, let me just touch on some of the key differences. First off, updating the site (which had a code base at least 3 years old) was a great opportunity to take advantage of all of the wonderful advancements with HTML5 and CSS. So one of the biggest enhancements with the new site, from a front end engineering standpoint, is the upgrade to HTML5. While the HTML5 specifications are still in the works, support is rapidly growing and the benefits can be profound.

In addition to the technical enhancements to the website, we also made some strategic design changes to the presentation and display of content on the website. This is probably most notable with our blog. We really wanted to bring our company blog up a notch, are publish more compelling content. With this in mind, we wanted to visually pull the blog out from the other content pages, but still have it feel fully integrated with the rest of the site.

We did this on two levels. On the blog landing page, we removed the branding from the header and dedicated the entire layout to blog articles. The second level is the article pages themselves. For the article pages, we really wanted to draw all the attention to the content of the article, without the distraction of complimentary material. So, we removed everything else, centered the article and provided a simple area for comments and categories underneath.

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