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,...
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 I wanted to undertake this effort because my old site was outdated, cluttered, and non-responsive on mobile devices.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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...