An Insight Into The One Page Love Redesign

In this post we’re going to look at the redesign of our project One Page Love and the reasons behind it all.

First off, why redesign?

One Page Love’s ideals are to support minimalism. Many people mail us saying it would be great if our site was One Page. This is possible but we feel we can provide a much better service for designers looking for one page inspiration if it’s not.

We also want to encourage user interaction, not a smelly forum or *another* social network, but through comments on submissions with construction feedback. We feel One Page Lovers have similar tastes and we know they’d appreciate words on the launch of their latest One Page creation.

Lastly, and we’re not going to lie, we want to increase page impressions to gain more revenue. We like premium roast just the same as you do:) Right now the site just lists the submissions, you click the pretty ones and you’re gone. We’re going to improve on this.

To recap on why

1. Provide better browsing for inspiration
2. Encourage a community feel
3. Increase impressions

New Features

These are all in the works so far:

Blog

Yup, you ask a blog on what? Roundups like ‘The best One Page sites of the month’, tutorials like ‘Alternatives to the ordinary lightbox picture gallery’ and other One Page creating resources, interviews and more.

Commenting

One Page Love will always write the first comment on every listed submission. We’ll start the discussion and state why we listed it. Hopefully users will give their constructive feedback and the designer can give his replies and reasoning.

Frequency and Quality

It’s been a tough decision but we have decided to only start listing the best submissions that offer mainly smart designs and unique features for the One Page Love community to get inspired from. This would mean most probably a really quality site listed once a day.

Flagging

When searching sometimes we come across redesigns that are no longer one page:( Users can now flag these and send a message to us to remove it with one click.

This also applies to websites being in the wrong category like ‘Launching Soon Websites‘ now full One Page websites.

Design

We are losing the dark background! Below is a snippet of the new (incomplete) new header design:

The new header, deadspace on right will go

Themes

We’re adding a section to the main navigation for “Themes”. This simply links to the Themes Category but definitely giving it more of a feature and plan to add more items in this category.

Tags

After analyzing search terms entered over the past year a lot of users are searching occupations like dentist, photographer, message therapist etc. We will be adding these tags in the future to help improve search results for designers getting inspiration for sites matching their client industry.

Be notified on the launch

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Feedback?

If you have any suggestions, please feel free to comment below, we *really* appreciate your support over the years.