Elezea by Rian van der Merwe - RSS Feed https://elezea.com/2010/05/geekdinner-presentation-the-highs-and-horrors-of-website-redesigns/ A personal blog about product, technology, and interesting things that are worth sharing. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 GeekDinner Presentation: The highs and horrors of website redesigns https://elezea.com/2010/05/geekdinner-presentation-the-highs-and-horrors-of-website-redesigns/ Fri, 28 May 2010 07:38:55 +0000 Rian van der Merwe https://elezea.com/?p=430 Last night I attended my first Cape Town GeekDinner, and I have to say that I will definitely be back next time.  Good food, good wine (thanks Delheim!), great atmosphere and discussions, and a few 10-minute geeky talks sprinkled in between… yes, this is an idea I can get behind.

I also got to do a short talk on 5 things I’ve learned about website redesigns from being involved in various projects at eBay and Yola.com.  The slides are posted below.  As I mentioned in my talk — since you can’t say a whole lot in 10 minutes, I went with breadth over depth here.  There are obviously a lot more that goes into redesign projects (and yes, I know Content Strategy is about more than not using Lorem Ipsum in your designs…).  But these are a some things I’ve learned going through the process a few times:

The highs and horrors of website redesigns



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