The old seafelt.com style was cobbled together by our developers (ok, me) and it was passable for the early version of our products. It did the job, which was all we, and our initial users, wanted. But after a while, it started to look a bit tired, and, well, amateurish. If you compared the work of someone who is not a graphic designer by trade with the efforts of big budget websites with at least one, it made seafelt look like less than the brilliant software that it is.

So we paid some real designers to come up with something that looks good. Along with seafelt.com, it's been folded into the daily build of the seafelt performance monitor. We may also update the trac wikis for ModiPy and seafelt Configuration Manager, but for now we plan to keep them running as-is. We're spending most of our time improving the end-user products themselves, rather than playing with the tracker web style too much.

That's one of the downsides to being a small company: we don't have the resources to maintain a department of graphic designers who do nothing but spew out brochureware for conferences you've never heard of. We spend our time building products that our customers will want to use, along with doing the boring stuff companies have to do (like maintain cash flow, so you can pay your graphic design firm).

On the upside, I can say I've helped build some great software that has really helped a few people that I know personally, and quite a few more that I've never met. And that rocks.

My thanks to Matt and Julian from Unified for the great job they did. I look forward to catching up with you guys at some stage for a beer.