This is the first in a series of posts describing how I am redesigning the DontCodeTime.com blog.

DontCodeTired is looking tired and boring, it also sucks when viewed on a mobile phone, hence I've decided to do a redesign. I am not a designer, if I was willing to pay for a designer (and I knew where to find one) I may have decided to use one. Certainly for a commercial project I would push heavily for a professional designer to be employed.

Building a content inventory

A content inventory is a way of examining and documenting the content that is currently on the site. This will not mean every individual post at this point, rather the key areas of content. The point of doing this is so at a later stage we can consciously decide what content is suitable for what devices, we may even throw away content completely.

At this point I don't want to pre-think about the actual new design - other than some what-extra-stuff-could-I-add.

Current DontCodeTired Content Inventory

Common to all pages
- Page header (title + sub title)
- Page footer ( be logo, dct link, terms of use link)
- Main nav menu
    - home
    - archive
    - contact
    - subscribe (rss)
    - log in
    - filter by APML

Common sidebars
- Silverlight apps links
- Tag cloud
- Recent posts
- Search box

Archive

Contact
- form

Log in page

Terms of use

Article (short view)
- Body Title
- by jason
- date time pub
- Body content
- rating
- tags
- sharing (email etc)
- permalink
- comment clink
- post RSS

Article (full view)
- prev next nav bar
- Body Title
- by jason
- date time pub
- Body content
- rating
- tags
- sharing (email etc)
- permalink
- comments link
- post RSS
- related posts
- comments
    

Possible New Content

- Advertisements: min one one each page, between posts, maybe side bar
- Logo
- Follow me on twitter button
- latest tweets/tweet? (only desktop & tablet??)
- Linked in profile link???
- My WP7 apps links
- My OS projects links
- Technical Debt Simulator
- share on g+
- share on fb
- share on twitter
- about me box (short aside) with link to longer about me page
- about me longer page

How it looks at this point

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