24Feb
In the last few weeks I’ve been getting that itch that a lot of website designers get to redesign my own website. It was back in May 2008 that I last redesigned my website, creating something I was finally pleased with as pretty much all previous versions of the website had problems in design, content and construction.
Unlike every previous time I’ve wanted to redesign I’m actually still pretty happy with what I have; it works in the most part and still looks good. For this reason I don’t want to throw everything out and completely redesign the site but I do want to make some changes and streamline some of the site. Some might say I want to realign the site, although what I have in mind may sit somewhere between the two.
Continue reading “To design or not to design”
19Feb
About a week ago I got the email about FeedBurner becoming fully integrated into Google and to be honest I didn’t read it in much depth but I did see the part where if I did nothing my feeds would become inactive by the end of February, not something I wanted to happen.
Given that I haven’t used FeedBurner in months and remembering the hassle involved in integrating it the last time I thought I’d just drop it and go back to the standard setup. However naively I thought after the couple of changes required that my feeds would continue to work as normal, however this may not be the case for everyone.
Unfortunately some people’s feed will no longer be working; apologies. I’ve looked into a couple of solutions to try and resurrect the old feed in the short term while people move across to the new feed but after a couple of attempts nothing appeared to be working. For this reason I have to ask that anyone wishing to keep up to date with the feed update their reader with the URL below:
http://www.keanrichmond.com/feed
I know how frustrating it can be to have to update feeds when sites decide to change them on a whim and although I have no crystal ball to see into the future I hope that this won’t happen again in the future.
Apologies,
Kean
15Feb
Something that I’ve always hated in some of the website’s I build is the lack of visual interest in the internal pages of a website. These pages tend to follow a standard layout with a long trail of visually boring content running down the page. To solve this problem I’ve started using Photoshop more to create composite images of the internal pages of a website to ensure they have more visual interest than what would occur when styling the internal of a site based predominantly on the style of the home page.
The problem this created is that with more unique layouts and styles from page to page I would have to write more CSS for more id’s and classes. That was until I started using page specific body id’s.
Continue reading “Page specific design made easy with body id’s”
9Feb
As freelance projects go I thought building a website for my Mother would be fairly easy, with most decisions easily signed off because my Mother is less likely to disagree with my choices than a normal client. Although this is true it puts a weight on your shoulders to ensure you make the correct decisions to start with. These days I’m confident of my design skills so knew I could design something beautiful but I also had to make sure it suited its target audience and subject matter.
When looking at sites that ranked for Book Keeping many were directory sites or corporate looking sites with heavy use of straight lines and white backgrounds as you’d expect for that industry. However with a much reduced amount of content than these sites I needed to take a different approach.
Continue reading “Portfolio Website: hazelrichmond.co.uk”