As I have been working on my new design, I have realized something: Doing web development sucks. Flat out, sucks. I have deep compassion for those of you who actually decided to do this for a living. As much of a perfectionist as I am, I could not do this job on a daily basis. I closed the doors of my web design business years ago for this reason, and this reason alone. If you thought dealing with your own tastes and perfectionist ways was difficult, try dealing with someone else’s. Most people who design sites, who are not professionals, design it to look nice in whatever browser they are using at the time, with whatever settings they have turned on or off, at the time (see MySpace). This is a perfect example of the old saying ignorance is bliss. If I could develop websites all day to work on a […]
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Designing for you.
I recently decided to redesign this blog. (At the time of this posting, you can obviously see that it is not finished yet as the design of this site has not changed.) I am a self-proclaimed PHP expert, I know CSS and HTML pretty well, and I dabble in Photoshop. One thing I lack though, is creative vision. I am by no means a designer. I know the code and the tools, but I am not artistic. Give me a mockup to work with, and I can code it, but beyond that I’m pretty useless. The initial re-design of the blog, which I spent about 30 man-hours on, came out looking very generic: Header, content, widget column. I really wanted something unique, and bold. Something not too overbearing but still very easy to use. I was unable to come up with anything myself. The first redesign was basically centered around […]