Just finished my first major redesign of Theatre in London. It looks a lot less like the default blog template and more like an actual media site. The biggest change is that I’m taking advantage of all of the imagery that’s available: posters are prominent almost everywhere, and I’ve made it easier to display images on individual articles. I’m also quite happy with some of the not-immediately-visible additions, like the overlaid icons for festival productions and the placeholder images for events that don’t have posters. Finally, I think the expanded event listings page and the calendar complement each other a lot better; at one point I had tried to include posters on the calendar too, and it was just an unreadable mess.
There will certainly be tweaks, but I think this is something that can stick around for a while without looking dated. And it’s only taken 12 months to get here!
