LFP v 3.0: A New Facelift

June 23, 2009 by dr. lam

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Today, I am proud to announce a tiring (for me at least) 2-month adventure trying to rebuild a 3,000+ page website from scratch. Okay, frankly, I did not do the work. My great web team did it. However, I did have to look through a lot of it, guide it, edit it and write new material. I am most proud of one element that is completely functionless, which is my home page, featuring 25 rotating branding messages that declare what I stand for and what LFP is all about. I combined elements of nature that had compelling color, graphic quality, and relevance to the message. I actually got the idea when searching through the Ritz-Carlton spa when I saw a beautiful leaf (I chose a different leaf for the image in question), as I almost never get ideas from other plastic surgery websites. The blue color of the top navigation I pulled from the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong spa. I love the regal bluish-green to it. I was thinking of a lighter blue but you could not read the wording well in the navigation bar. The rebranding of my color emanated from the repeated protestations a couple of years ago during my web contest to change my brown color scheme. Accordingly, I have listened. Come on, it only took 2 years! The design (ahem) is all Apple. Sorry Steve Jobs, but I love Apple so this is my homage to Apple.

The function (thanks Adam and George) of this website is so much better. My website became increasingly cluttered like a closet overstuffed with new shoes and old shoes that don’t fit. (My webmaster, Adam, said he need both valium and propecia before he could undertake the task of redoing the site. I thought that was hilarious.) Here’s another analogy. I kept adding new rooms to an old house so that nothing worked or matched. That is the problem with a restlessly creative mind always seeking a better solution for my customers. So, in short, I tore down the house, razed it to the ground, and rebuilt it from scratch. I have had a lot of compliments with my past website but I certainly knew where it fell far short. I like what Steve Jobs said when he was introducing the iPod Nano, “The iPod Mini is the world’s best-selling iPod and MP3 machine ever. Today, we get rid of it.” That is how I view my old site. It worked (sort of). It was good but this new site is so much better.

What didn’t work with the old site was its navigation. It was impossible to find anything. Now, if you are interested, for example, in fat grafting, you go the expandable menu item under “procedures” and you have all the major videos and related information related to that topic. If you want to learn more about chin augmentation, I have all my video diaries and journeys linked to from the chin augmentation page (well, we have a few videos that still need linking to that hopefully adam will be done with in the next few days). If you are just searching the videos section itself, all of my 400 plus videos are organized, suborganized, and suborganized so that they are more easily cataloged and thereby found. I hope you enjoy this behemoth labor of love and value your feedback to making it better (or if you find any glitches, which I am sure there are plenty). Thanks for your continued patronage and support of LFP (and patience during this web transition phase)!

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