Design
So here’s a somewhat new design for my website, which took a couple of times to get right but is something I’m happy with for now.
To be honest the design isn’t my favourite, which I know it should be given that this is my site and should reflect the best of my ability. That said however, I had changes I really wanted to make to the site and really not enough time to get everything 100% right.
I’ve gotten into a poor habit recently of skim reading many new posts about the web, and not doing the necessary investigation into some of the new advancements on the web. One of these is responsive design. My understanding of responsive design is to think of designing a website using a liquid layout but with added media queries to alter the layout somewhat at certain resolutions.
This is so that you can create more suitable layouts not only for mobile devices but also utilise the greater space available at larger resolutions. Though I’m not sure if I’ll be looking to use such a method of design in all client work just yet I thought it was worth investigating the concept and attempt to implement a suitable solution.
So with this is mind I thought I would hijack the new Becky Naylor website to try this out. With recent redesigns of Dave’s site late last year and the Bronco site more recently Becky was looking for a refresh to her site. So with some spare time between client work I tested out how to implement the media queries correctly and then began designing the new website, which is now live.
As a personal website the site of course has to suit Becky and I really hope it does, it keeps aspects of the previous site but updates it, cleans it up and utilises some new technologies so it looks simply awesome in any modern browser.
Let’s hope it last’s her another couple of years.
Today marks 8 years since the start of Bronco and over that time I’ve worked for the company for about 4.5 years. In that time I’ve loved working at Bronco, even if there are times I find the job and the clients testing I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else.
But enough about me, the point of this post is to introduce yet another new Bronco website to the nation. It’s more coincidence than anything else but with it being Bronco’s 8th birthday it seemed apt to launch our new website. This is the 4th Bronco site I’ve designed and built in my time at Bronco and as always I think this is best yet.
It’s my belief that our site has to be the best that we can do and at times it just happens that we want to have a bit of an update. There are elements of the site I would love to revisit but on the whole I’m really happy with the new design and the additions we’ve made to the website.
You can read more about what we have added to the site and why on the Bronco website and if you have any feedback then please leave a comment below.
Enjoy
In over 4 years of doing web design professionally I’ve always been a little adverse to opening Illustrator and doing any vector work whatsoever. I’d learnt Photoshop whilst at University and I am used to working in pixels, except for a slight foray into Macromedia Freehand (remember that?).
But recently I’ve been trying to understand Illustrator a little more, first by editing existing vector images and then creating basic icons, but this week I went a little mad and tried a full blown illustration. The result of which you can see below, or on the final site for a childminder in Hartlepool:
