After months of development, AwesomeStart 2.0 is finally online. Before I get into the details, a big thanks goes out to Jule Morris who has been supplying us with new themes all week. Her work gave us a chance to focus our full efforts on the new design and not worry about supplying fresh content for everyone in the process. As we attempt to fill everyone’s demand for new movie pages this next week, she’ll be designing a few more music ones for us.
The biggest thing you’ll notice about the new site is a fresh look. As I’ve mentioned before, version 1.0 always felt very temporary to us. We wanted to create something that looked a bit more professional. The look isn’t the only thing that changed, though. The site also loads faster and displays more content at once than the old one.
Our most important change has to be the new gallery system. No long does the entire theme library load into one screen. You can now look at themes by their category (music, movie, and other). As wee add more and more themes to the site, we realize it’s getting harder to find the one you want. That’s why every page on the site now has a search function in the upper right hand corner. This search function searches all of AwesomeStart for the terms you provide. In this way, you could search for the name of a band or movie and see if there is a page for it.
As always, there’s much more coming soon. Look for more skins all next week. We’re just getting warmed up.