Howdy everyone! I started sharing this the other day, but Gadget and I were talking about it and more changes were made - but I'm going to share with you guys what's been developing with the design of my new blog layout.
Off the jump, you'll notice a huge difference between these two and the two that I shared a few months back.
There's a lot going on right now, but you'll notice that this is a HUGE redesign - from the ground up! So far, I'm super pleased with how posts will look - but that sidebar/header is making me really indecisive. There's a lot of duplication of buttons because I was testing how hover & active states will look.
With this first one, I had the big header at the top... which I'm going to be moving away from.... and I know I want to show off some artwork, but I don't want to take away from the blog content, so I'm going to go with a faded lineart.
With the second one, I put the header title IN the sidebar, and pushed the main content to the top of the browser.
This third one I feel is moving more towards the right direction. I removed all the extraneous hover state buttons to eliminate confusion (for both you and myself, haha!) I adjusted how the photo & about me info is displayed so it doesn't clash with the lineart in the background. Speaking of background lineart - I'm going to make it bigger like in the 2nd version above.
My ONLY gripe right now is that I didn't make the content wider - in fact, I somehow went narrower...
But I am pleased with how this is going thus far!! I'm trying to solidify a design by Memorial Day (Monday!!) and get started on some code!
Happy Thursday, and Happy Pi Day!!
I work with a bunch of engineers and one gigantic math nerd - who put together our company's 2nd big Pi Day extravaganza. He asked me to design some badges, and I made some buttons with my button maker for the event. I worked all night on them... so I was very tired today.
But what's Pi Day... without PIE!?! The math nerd from my past is still alive and well, and of course my inner fat kid loves pi day. But not only did we have a ton of pies, a bunch of us ordered pizza for lunch. (lets just say - I need to work out a lot to get rid of the crazy things that went in my belly today) Needless to say, I was in a pie coma on the bus ride home... hahahaa!
Not only is it Pi Day, but it's also my 100th post on SRM, so I'm excited.
Hey there my favorite visitors! I know I haven't been posting a whole lot of creations recently, but there is a reason for that! Apart from my camera that has gone MIA, I've been doing almost nothing more but doing a complete and utter revamp of my home office/craft room. I was just telling Gadget this morning that I wish I had a camera in the top corner and did a time-lapse of the whole process. It goes from being a mess to an organized mess, to a mess, to clean. Gadget always pops his head in at the absolute WORSE times... I'm sure he thinks I'm crazy.
Actually, that's not all that I've been doing. I've been working on my upcoming graphic shop as well as a complete revamp of this blog's layout.
I've decided to share some previews of the first idea I had for the revamp. I liked the blue, but I wanted orange - which is why the only difference is the color for these two shots.
Now, why not just use these, you ask? Because I want to showcase some more artwork in my layout. The final layout will be very similar to the layouts you see above, but with some differences here and there.
What do you guys think? I'd love to hear what you think, and if you think this would be an improvement on the current layout.
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