Category Archives: Web Design

Oh, for a Pensieve App

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I’ve been wanting to redesign my site for a while now. This wasn’t what I had pictured in my head at all but I don’t have the WordPress dev skills to build what is in my head.

Someone should develop a pensieve app… you put your thoughts into it and it spits out code. That would be cool. But that’s why we have devs.

Meanwhile, I can’t decide whether to keep going or not. I kinda like it right now.. simple.. straight-forward… a bit of artwork thrown in y’know? So, I’m sitting here with one of those “It’s sorta ok with me for now” shrugs rolling over my shoulders.

Plan to add some custom post formats. And maybe I’ll just leave it at that.

(For non Potter fans, if there is such a thing: What is a Pensieve?)

Taking care of the weeds

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The other day while I was at #wcpdx, I needed to pull up a link from my site on my phone. I’ve been using the same WP theme for a while and I discovered that it sort of sucks on a mobile.

So, here I am again, kicking myself for not having redesigned my own site yet and letting it get out of date. I haven’t added anything to the portfolio pages for months.

I’m know this is a familiar story for all designers/developers: taking care of your own garden gets shoved on the back fence while you tend client projects.

I was embarrassed for myself trying to navigate the menu on my phone.. yikes! Weedy… just full of weeds.

My clients are very glad I don’t treat them with the same level of disregard.

Time to get out the shovel.

Thanks to Front-End Design Conference for the Inspiration

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I recently attended the Front-End Design Conference in St. Petersburg (http://frontenddesignconference.com/), which completely rocked.  I came away feeling inspired to *finally* get serious about a much overdue overhaul of my own website.

My website is using a theme I got from Rocket Themes but I now want to redesign the entrie site using some of my artwork and making the portfolio more prominent. So, of course, looking for a good time slot to do that in.

Thanks to Front-End Design Conference for not only the inspiration, but for giving me a reason to actually post something here! ;)