A new design for a new season! It had been too long with a design that I didn’t like much. So, I decided to simplify. Cutting out unintentional graphic elements, the new design focuses on what is important: content. That is one thing that I’ve learned recently. Design choices must be intentional to be effective.
What inspired my choice is that in the past I’ve worried about something that looked good and never wrote much. And now I’m going to start to write. But not about what I think I should be writing about. I’m going to write about me, my life, and what I happen to be interested.
And I’m excited for the change.
For those who may not know what the old design looked like, here are before and after screenshots.
Finding inspiration for great web design is always fun. There are some stinking creative designers out there. Recently, I’ve been searching for sites that have spent a lot of time thinking through their information architecture.
The problem is that most of the sites you find in galleries or design blogs are simple sites. Their navigation isn’t too extensive and they tend to be light on content (aside from the blog element). So, instead of going to the normal galleries of well designed websites, I went searching for the big corporations who likely spent thousands upon thousands working out their IA systems.
I was recently asked about making some HTML email templates for someone I worked with. I promptly declined the task primarily because email programs all render html differntly and I didn’t want to take the time and test them. Also, I hate having to work with HTML tables!
After looking around a little, I came across an article pointing to 30+ Free HTML email templates. The biggest benefit to these templates: they all have been tested in most of the major email clients! So, if you are looking for a quick solution to for fancy emails, these templates will save you a headache or two!
30+ Free HTML email templates via Open Source Hunter
Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time browsing the web for inspiration. I’ve built up quite a list of sites that I regularly go to to find various sorts of tips and inspiration. Due to the immense amount of junk on the internet, finding inspiration or resources can be quite difficult at time. Well, let me help. Every week, I’ll post a brief review of my favorite sites.