Over the last couple of months we have been busily working on redesigns for all of our sites. The latest two to adopt the new template are TechDigest and Bridalwave, both of which will go live this week.

We have left them until now as they are our two biggest websites which boast a very large number of stories and the highest number of unique users (TechDigest attacted over 400,000 users in November while Bridalwave had 320,000).

We have attempted to keep the designs as clean and simple as possible. The four key stories with images at the top of the page is something I have wanted to add to the Shiny sites for over a year now. They have worked very well for other sites I have been involved with like Anorak.

In the side bars now there is space for long tail/feature type content, something Shiny site haven't really had before.

This is however very much stage one on our journey. There are two major design tweaks for most of the sites which will go live in early 2009 that we are very excited about.

February 2009 will also see the relaunch of Brandish (as a men's lifestyle website) and iPhonic.