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In PaperDemon's history we've gone through roughly 7 different page designs/layouts. About every year we redesign the look and feel of the site to give it a visual refresh. Usually its because I'm sick of staring at it and am ready for a change. It's been about a year since the current design debuted and I'm actually still very quite happy with it.

So instead of a redesign I think what I'm going to do is find ways to improve the existing design. Today I started making a few tweaks to the home page and to the Members Area Menu. What's funny is that there are some areas of the site that have left overs from a previous design template. As soon as I design a new template there are areas that get forgotten about and have the old site look and feel. So it's a year later and there are still areas like that.

Anyway, I'm going to try and make improvements to what we have rather than start something new. Mostly stuff with the CSS code and structure. The way I originally structured some of the CSS was way to specific and hard to maintain. I have to simplify a lot of it.

Another unrelated issue, the home page is taking too long to load. My scripts show its taking over 3 seconds for the home page to load and that is sucky. I've narrowed down the slowness to one particular area: Latest Writing. I'll need to do some caching on it to improve performance.

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