Okay, did it! I’ve now changed the design, layout and structure for both the Indian and Chinese site templates. Examples can be found at Galapagos.in and Galapagos.cn. In additional to being a more open design and calling greater attention to the image representing each country, there’s also additional information for local times and a welcome message – all while taking up less important vertical space.
On a more technical note, I’ve condensed multiple different function calls for things like weather, photo links, currency exchange and related links into one single function, which has seemed to speed up the rendering time. Also made a few minor formatting and navigational touch-ups here and there. I still have work to do to deploy this template across other common pages like landing pages, contact pages and TravelPhotos.in and TravelPhotos.cn – but that will all happen likely in the new year.
I’ll try to post a final message tomorrow, the last day of 2008. Just in case I don’t, here’s to a healthy and hopefully more prosperous 2009…
Cheers!
Bryan
