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Update: The site design just changed… again. Most of this stuff isn’t true anymore, but it’s still good design advice.
I’ve just upgraded the entire Brandon Wang site. It now has a much more fluid design, and it looks a lot neater.
In the designing of the front page, I used a lot of images. I really wanted the website to look exactly like it should look, so people without Myriad Pro would notice some differences if I just used text. I also considered using the Flash-text technique, but being a user of Flashblock myself, I realized that probably wouldn’t work out.
So the answer was to use images, and for everything on the front page, I used images. Everything, from the background to the links, was created using images.
The next step was to design the secondary pages. I decided I would kind of branch off of the front-page design. I quickly whipped up the background image I used for the main page, but without all that “Welcome to…” junk. I really liked that light effect, so I just used that.
I then pushed the content up higher. Now I just quickly wrote a bit of CSS, and now that works nicely. It probably doesn’t look as great because some people don’t have the fonts, but I wrote the list of fonts in a preference order: Myraid Pro, Segoe UI, Calibri, Verdana, san-serif.
This is the final straw in the design… probably. Design work never ends. This blog used to be used as a CMS to show the pages using a theme called Viewport. However, it was a bit cumbersome to use it as a main navigation, thus the new design.
Currently, as of writing, the blog theme is Simplr Vostok. I plan on customizing the theme so it kind of fits in with the rest of the site without destroying its minimalistic structure and design.
As I said, design work never ends. I’m still working on my book. I’m still writing. I’m still designing. It’s life, after all.
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Publish date Sunday, January 25, 2009
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Oh, and I consider myself a designer.