I’ve been playing/futzing/incessantly changing the pattern mock-up.  It’s important that it be good enough.  Not necessarily perfect, but good enough.  I accepted too low of a bar last time and it made things harder for all patterns moving forward – so I’ve pushed and figured things out.

This mock-up gives you a good sense of what I’m thinking.

And now I ask you – what do you think?  Does it work for you?  Did I miss something big?

A few things I wanted from the new design:

• One page for the whole pattern – no more separation of images, charts and schematics.
  • I’ll redirect the other pages so no worries about bad links.
• Overlays of the images so they’re small until you want them big.
  • And they’re not the dreaded Pop Up.
  • And they’re shareable right from the overlay.
  • But I’m not too sure about those icons.
• Good readability (duh).
• Pretty easy to lay out when I need to create new patterns.  They patterns took a lot of time in the old site and I know I need to reduce that to make this sustainable.
• Print-friendly – I still have some work to do on this one.  It’s decent but it’s not *there* yet.

So what do you think?  And what did I miss?  I’m sure I’ll get some conflicting feedback (which is French for “I can’t please everyone”) but I should get close.

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