CerebralDebris

Well, I’ve spent the past six weeks toiling away on a massive redesign of Crispy Gamer, and it’s finally launched. I’m really proud of what we managed to accomplish with it, especially given that our entire development staff was me (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Design) and my good friend Gabe (C#, SQL, ASP.Net, etc). We did have much help from our project manager, and everyone at Crispy chipped in with lots of brainstorming, suggestions, QA, and the like … it was a huge team effort.

And it’s pretty cool, if I do say so myself. The site looks a lot better, and the underlying structure is a million, billion, billion, trillion times better than it was. I took the CSS file down from over 6000 lines to under 2000, reduced the size of the JavaScript, dramatically reduced the page weight in both graphics and HTML, and widgetized the living hell out of the site, so creating new pages with lots of dynamic chunks is super-easy.

I lost a lot of nights and weekends to this project (I’m typing this at the office, in fact), but thankfully my lovely wife has been super-supportive, taking care of the house and the cats, and even swinging by the office to provide moral support and/or Starbucks runs as necessary. She rocks. :)

So anyway, check out the site and let me know what you think. Or join our forums and let us know there. Either way, go go go!

Here now are some progress reports:

Lose 25 lbs. Project

Starting weight – 213.5

Current Weight – 213.5

Difference: 0 lbs. Son of a bitch!

Long Hair and Outrageous Muttonchops Project

Hair: Steadily growing out of control

Muttonchops: Mildly outrageous, as you can see!