New site is killing me
Aug
11th
So I am designing a new site (its going to look almost exactly like the current one) and I hate it. I need to blog to encourage myself to keep making work. When I know I will show it to others, it makes me fine tune my projects more and document them better. Secondly, I want my site to assist me in social networking, and when I say social networking I mean just keep up with people I actually see and go out with on a day to day basis. For example I don’t post pictures or projects to Facebook, I just post them here and then post a status to twitter witch automatically goes to Facebook and walla, everybody has been notified about the photos or my new project blah blah blah. I think I will still keep a Tumblr to keep stuff I create separate from stuff I find around the intronets.
The image above is from my brainstorming on what layout I should use, and what parts do I actually need on my site. Obviously the blog is the main part, but I am shrinking it down on the home page, it will now be about 420px wide vs. the 600px ish wide it is currently. In the interest of social networking, I am also working on a nice little section of links to all my friends and favorite artists sites. I have some talented friends, so if you care to come here and see my work, you will probably really enjoy seeing theirs. Going into the school year, I want this site up and running for two reasons: First, I want the new web professor to critique it, and second: I want to start making better process posts as I dive into litho and serig and hopefully the combination of the two. If you have any recommendations on what you think I should do with my new design, let me know.
