Off The Kitchen
Come see what's cooking!
Posted at 08:55h
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Design,
Web Development
I think that this will be the last installment in my series of blogs about the re-design of my web site. I’ve already described how I defined, designed and built a mobile-friendly site and how I used the process to immerse myself in design principles,...
Posted at 16:41h
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Design,
Web Development
If you’ve been following my last few blogs, you’ll know that I decided to re-vamp my web site using a mobile-first design strategy. I wanted to undertake this effort because my old site was outdated, cluttered, and non-responsive on mobile devices. I also wanted to...
Posted at 14:07h
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Design,
Web Development
So far in my effort to re-design my web site, I had put together and followed a mobile-first methodology that started with defining requirements and creating a site inventory and then moved through design steps for layout, color and type.
At this point I had a...
Posted at 19:49h
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Design,
Web Development
I’m certainly no graphic design expert, but through the limited study that I have done so far I’ve learned that design components are sometimes grouped in terms of three general areas: layout, color and type. So I decided to take on the re-design of my...
Posted at 15:27h
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Design,
Web Development
Now that I had a wire frame for my new site, it was time to start adding a little style.
Understanding color is one of the more complicated and underestimated aspects of design. You can make an entire career out of understanding how various colors communicate...
Posted at 21:02h
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Design,
Web Development
So far in my effort to redesign my web site, I had gathered requirements and created a content inventory. Now that I knew "what" was going to be on the new site, it was time to start thinking about how it was going to look.
I had to...
Posted at 21:50h
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Design,
Web Development
Now that I had spent some time gathering requirements for the redesign of www.steveweeksmusic.com, it was time for me to take inventory of the site.
As I mentioned before, years of tacking on random things to my web pages had resulted in a site that was unmanageable for me...
Posted at 19:13h
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Design,
Web Development
Now that I had decided to embark on an overhaul of my web site, I had to ask myself, "Why in the world am I doing this?"
It may sound like an obvious question to ask, but before I started slinging code, I wanted to really...
Posted at 18:54h
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Design,
Web Development
After having put it off for way too long, I finally decided to re-design my web site www.steveweeksmusic.com.
I've known the site needed an overhaul for quite a while. It was very dated looking, didn't work well on mobile devices and was way overbuilt. It had...
Posted at 10:23h
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Photography
These are the final few photos from my 30 day photo challenge. It ended up being a great experience even if the photos weren't all that good. Got me to go off the beaten path a few times.
Photo #25 (Pop the Top)
This is another experimental shot...