Personal Project: Teaser
After a pretty frantic and awesome bank holiday weekend I’ve decided to show off a little teaser of the two sites I’ve been developing for the past couple of months.
May 2009
After a pretty frantic and awesome bank holiday weekend I’ve decided to show off a little teaser of the two sites I’ve been developing for the past couple of months.
Last year I decided I would create a WordPress theme as a little personal project to do. This lasted for all of a couple of weeks. My main problem I was trying to create a theme that would be flexible enough for a wide range of users. Thinking this way just drove me nuts and I wasn’t able to create a design that I thought could suit this goal. So the project started to drift.
The other week I attended the Future of Web Design conference and must admit to having come away a little disappointed. Personally I think there were mistakes made by both the organisers and the speakers that resulting in a conference weaker than the one I attended last year.
Due to late attendees last year and subsequent queuing the registration period was extended by an hour this year. For early arrivals this meant a fair amount of time waiting around as well as a reduction in the overall time for the conference by an hour. Given the costs involved in attending conferences you hope to have as much time as possible listening to the speakers. I’m of the opinion that if you’re late then you miss out and you should have arrived earlier.
Early this year we were approached by the guys behind Floor Heating Online who are specialists in Underfloor Heating to design, build and optimise their website. A couple of weeks ago the site went live.
From a design stand point the website provided little room for experimentation or innovation but then for heating products you don’t need this. These products are not luxury items or impulse buys so when someone visits the website they need to be able to find and buy a product as quickly and simply as possible. To ensure the website does this we removed the need to register in order to buy, simplified the navigation and rebuilt the Room Selector present on the old website.