The New Digs
06.3.09
I’ve learned a couple things about myself while making this site. Turns out I’m much better at making design decisions for everyone else. With the amount of design revisions I went through, I would have fired myself for sure. Choosing an aesthetic and sticking to it proved to be very difficult. There are just so many great ways to present info. Thankfully I’ve been busy enough lately and nobody’s asked me, “Why don’t you have a site of your own, Mr. Web Designer?” I knew it was heading for me and I didn’t have an adequate answer, so I found time.
The Plan
The content on this little weblog will hopefully be a horn-o-plenty; brimming with design tutorials, clever observations and wildly absurd opinions. Since I’m limited to just 140 characters per tweet and I don’t Book Faces, I’ll likely pepper in random arbitrary stuff from life. There are still moments that require complete sentences, the occasional capital letter and even some punctuation.
Colophon
I know ‒ it’s really bright. I love CMYK and they are about the only colors I never grow tired of. What other website would CMYK really be appropriate for? The background fade in/out of the main navigation was fun to toil over. It’s subtle enough that it may go undetected to the less observant folks. The few JavaScript effects that were added, like the contact drop down, were meant to be subtle and unobtrusive. The grand scheme was to keep this site clean and simple.
- Color Scheme: CMYK – modified
- Nav Background Fade – jQuery Sprites Integration (link)
- Font-Stack – Sans-serif: “lucida sans unicode”, “lucida grande”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
- Font-Stack – Serif: “Caslon Pro Regular”,”Palatino Linotype”, georgia, serif;
- WordPress Personal Theme Design
- #111 is the new Black Text