New Design, New sites

As many regular readers know I’ve been working on GPS features for Ke Nalu. In my typical poster-boy-for-attention-deficit manner I have fertilized this already challenging project with a thick layer of new ideas and redesigns, turning Ke Nalu into a publishing empire (sort of).

First and foremost is an efficiency redesign. I spent some time analyzing what people read on Ke Nalu and relating that to what features “cost” in terms of load time. As a result I’m reworking how the front page works and making everything a lot cleaner. the Favorite Videos is moving inside the publication. It simply takes too much load time on the main page, Everything is going to be much cleaner and easier to read. I’m taking the suggestions of numerous people and increasing the font size for articles.

The big news though is that Ke Nalu is going to be joined by several sister publications that will share some content and contribute some content to each other. The first publication to be launched is Ke Nalu Downwind, (http://www.kdownwind.com) a publication focused on downwind, racing, expeditioning and cruising. Ke Nalu Downwind is under development now, and if you want to see what Ke Nalu will eventually look like, that’s the place to look. All the GPS technology and Reader publishing tools will show up there first, before they make their way to Ke Nalu.

There’s a lot of new technology being shoveled under that hood, and it changes hour to hour, but you might find the process interesting.