Posts Tagged ‘Site Redesign’
Even though I’ve decided to take advantage of the built in aspects of WordPress and transform this portfolio using their blogging software, the last incarnation of this site (which I built from scratch using Flash) is still available online.
This year TART decided to mix things up a bit. They wanted to lose the horizontal lines and shape elements that have been the foundation of the layout. They never want to spring for a whole new site design so these kind of requests are a way to make the site look new and different, but you cannot just take out of a foundation without adjusting something else if you expetc things to remain standing, so I worked with some of the patterns they provided for this season and came up with an elegant solution that gave them a new look at the cost of an update.
While you enjoy the new incarnation, the version of my portfolio that went live in 2006 will remain available online here.
This time around the TART update was a bit more complicated. They decided to upsize the live area. Now these files WERE in Flash so resizing is possible. But it was a fair amount of work to do the math, calculating all the new specs, resizing all the individual FLAs to match and the reassembling it with HTML. But it ended up a fairly seamless color / coltent update and site resize.
I’ve updated the TART website. The design was planned with updatability in mind so the general color update wasn’t to much of a problem once we’d decided upon a color scheme. The gallery updates aren’t that time consuming – mostly repetitive Photoshopping and the a lot op updating FLAs, but I’m pretty damn fast. (NOTE this version has since been replace online – linked version is hosted at PXLFORGE)
I have designed a few different sites for TART over the past few years. Here is the latest which was planned with ease of updatability and customization for future upgrades in mind. (NOTE this version has since been replace online – linked version is hosted at PXLFORGE)
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