Redesign #1: A First Look
I have a long distraction problem when dealing with my own project. It was very difficult to keep promise to my project (or let’s called fun project), like this very own blog/website, for that project to be able to run on the right track. It is much easier to keep promise and deliver works for client’s projects, because you know you had to deal with someone and you obliged to do all of your promises.
Take a look at previous post when I shared to you about how I will redesign this blog. It has been two year, since 2007. And the progress stuck, and I launched the redesign with a good looking Textpattern theme called TXP Serene created by Vladimir Agafonkin. The theme is living with this blog for around three years. Three years with other people design and you called yourself designer? The planning is only became worth of a plan. That’s a big problem.
But I see the light as of today. The moment is coming. After taking long time for playing, experimenting, and illustrating badly, it finally came to a final eureka moment for the redesign project, again. Here is the first look.
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It is still a one page mockup. The design is only available on Adobe Illustrator document. It still waiting for more sub pages to be defined. It still need to be transformed into a xhtml/css code for a working click through prototypes. Then it still need to be implemented into Textpattern theme, my Content Management System (CMS) of choice. As you can see, there are three main categorization (main menus on the top left) of my website, they are: portfolios, stuffs, and blogs (this blog). I thinks now I had a quite amount of works I can shared with, they are some xhtml/css projects, some graphic design projects, and some interesting stuffs I might able to share to the wild world. The rounded button at bottom are links to all my social networking websites as well as my contact page. So it’s very interesting to let you know all about the progress.
I also have a plan to experiment with the new website on some interesting thing (hint: it’s the left colorful sidebar). It’s something with JavaScript and CSS, for sure. But let’s wait the detail for the next installment. I don’t know how long the progress will take. Since I had some very tight schedule at the moment of TCO’09. I hope it will not last than this June.
That’s all for now. If you had any comment or idea, please say so. I would be more than happy to answer or gather any good idea from this installment.
And, I would be sure, this is not about procrastination again. This is not going to be any delay for launch. Stay tune in few days.
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— dani · 06/04/09 10:58 AM · #
Another TXP player here, I knew kusaeni and kriwil blogs. :)
The colorful sidebar is a mistery.
What is the main genre of this project? Something like minimalism, compact, modern, or what?
— jek · 08/04/09 10:42 PM · #
gak dadi-dadi… :D
— rental mobil di surabaya · 05/05/09 03:40 PM · #
thx 4 share….:D
— alwin · 09/05/09 09:15 AM · #
nice clean layout..i always love the color grey and white..nice combination!