The New Redesign of Pixil.info
With a brand new year come brand new ideas and expectations. Lately I’ve been busy focusing most of my time on Pixil.info for many reasons, but mainly because I believe it’s one of the best ways to contribute to the design and development community. So with the new year here, I thought it be a really great idea to redesign the blog and simplify a few things.
First thing on my list were to make the site’s load time faster. With all the videos loading on the front page, we agreed it was best to not display every video on each post. So I decided that the best way to display our media was to run it though an elegant yet simple media viewer. So we decided to go with Shadowbox JS.
A few other items on the optimization list was to reduce the size of image and to ditch unnecessary transparent PNG images.
The next thing to do was to spice up the sites color scheme. Though at first I enjoyed the dull muted color look, I choose to saturate the existing color palette and really pop the shit out of those colors (but not eye precisely harsh of course 
. New textures were created and I experimented a lot with making grungy patterns. Spent lots of time with the dark color blend mode!
Positioning and aligning elements is always important to me and Its definitely what makes or breaks a design, so of course I kept the layout very simple. Two columns, fixed width!
And from beginning to end, organized layers, smart object slices, and yes even layer comps were used in my workflow. You guys don’t know how much it helps to use these when building out a site! Let me know what you guys think of the redesign, thanks!
nice, also made the shows load faster by optimizing where the sponsors are