The new blog design is mostly implemented, and I though it would be a good idea to talk about some of the decisions I’d made while designing. This is a long one, so be warned.
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I’m in the middle of transitioning the temporary blog design from the temporary TextPattern theme to the new layout. Things will probably look a bit off for the next day or so.
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Earlier this week, I wrote about using the typeface Dolly in both experimental layouts and in a first draft of a homepage design. On reviewing the design, however, I found that it didn’t quite fit with what I wanted to achieve visually. Let me show you why it failed.
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Sometimes you can struggle for weeks to find inspiration, much to your frustration. Other times, it can come up and smack you in the face like a wet trout screaming “Hello! I’m a typeface, and I am gorgeous!“.
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Up until now, I have been documenting the exploration process I’ve gone through to build my new site. Two posts later and I’ve realised that this approach falls flat. It may be useful for historical purposes, but it sure makes for dull reading.
From now on, I’ll be trying something new. I’ll tell you what I am or will be doing, and explain why. I’ll start with the content on the home page.
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In the first article of this series I talked about my brainstorming process as I tried to understand the problem that a new website would be part of the solution for. In this article, I’ll show my work towards defining the purpose of the site.
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If you take on designing a new site, then you’re presented with an awfully big problem to solve. And that problem is not one with an obvious one.
The first step to solving the problem was to try to understand it.
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