Chasing my dream… I am now one step closer!
In the past week (or perhaps 2 weeks, depending on how I count my time spent on this :P) I have been VERY busy with a personal project of mine – a complete redesign and a massive overhaul of my website’s homepage layout and style. Well, it’s ready! The amount of information I am able to show off on the homepage of VULKK.com is now a lot more and structured way better, I think. Let’s take a look at what exactly has changed… with bulletpoints (and in a video, which I will share at the end of this post):
The top section!
- 2 big Thumbnails/Sliders on the top will show you the most interesting and important articles I have published recently. Each of the sliders contains 2-3 thumbnails that appear randomly upon opening the page and change up every ~5 seconds. The left slider is dedicated to SWTOR materials, while the right is about everything else I care about – from Star Wars to all the other games and personal projects.
- 4 Latest Videos are nested right under the 2 big sliders. These 4 videos aren’t necessarily the latest videos on my YouTube channel, though. I don’t always mirror all of my content between the channel and the website. I share what’s relevant and where/when it is.
- 4 main columns are located right below the 4 videos. They are structured in the following order from left to right: FEATURED posts, SWTOR, GWENT, 3rd Most Important Game to me (currently Mass Effect Andromeda). These modules share both news and my newest guides for the games. Each one of the 4 columns has 5 entries in it.
The described so far modules are always the first thing everyone will see on any device. Everything else is below the “scroll point”.
Scroll down, you know you want to!
- Star Wars News section has a special place on the front page as well. At the moment I don’t tend to be on the spot and right up racing with the clock regarding my sharing of Star Wars news as soon as they appear, that’s why I don’t feature them in a more visible place, somewhere closer to the top.
- Most Popular Posts is a small column of ~10 posts that have been the most popular/visited on my website for the last day. It’s hidden right below the advertisement and to the right of the Star Wars News.
- Personal Blog Posts is the module where you would see my rare Blog publications. I don’t do these often as I prefer to express my feelings and thoughts via videos most of the time. But every now and then you will discover that there was something I felt like writing instead of shouting or grunding on camera :)
- Recent Videos per Category is at the bottom and presents a huge selection of videos, ordered in several categories. Up in the main menu (on the top) I have all my video categories listed. These here are just the most popular and current ones.
But that’s not it…
I have completely changed the mobile version of the website as well. On your phone you should now see VULKK.com’s homepage loading much much faster than ever before. Why? I’ve simplified it a lot and introduced several changes that will help with loading speed, while removing mobile unfriendly modules and sections, such as the giant sliders and videos.
Ok, that was it!
Well, I think I’m done with this post now. I thought of sharing a screenshot of the main page here, but.. WTH, it’s right there, one click away. Sharing it in a scaled down format to fit the whole page in a post isn’t exactly my brightest idea now, is it?!
How do you like it? Did you notice the difference before I announced it everywhere? Do you have any further recommendations for me?
