Monday June 30 2008
Business Site
I’ve sent a few emails off to my graphic designer in Edmonton about my client site, but due to a long weekend (Canada Day) and time changes I’m not expecting a speedy reply. I’m hoping though since I’ve reached the wall with my photoshop skill and can’t really proceed any further without the graphics for backgrounds etcetera.
I have been making good use of my time however. I completed a comp of the homepage for my web design site and got it coded into static html. Everything went very smooth and the html/css site looks exactly like the photoshop site. There’s still alot to do with that site including; setting up contact form, portfolio, services offered, testimonials, and more. Additionally I have to port it all to Expression Engine and upgrade my license from personal to commercial.
update
Part of the page is messed up in IE7 - don’t know about IE and lower, but can only assume it’s equal or worse. - strange, but without changing any code it now looks fine.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Jun 30, 2008 at 04:24 PM
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Sunday June 29 2008
Expression Engine 1.6.4
I just upgraded to EE 1.6.4 -smooth as always. It’s nice to see EE supporting the 1.6 branch despite announcements of a major upgrade to 2.0 sometime this summer.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Sunday Jun 29, 2008 at 01:10 PM
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Rejection & Web ReDesign 2.0
Yesterday I sent a preliminary comp to my client and the parts that I liked best were rejected. The general layout is good, but the parts where I spent some time on photoshop tutorials - rejected. I guess it’s good that I sent the comp in early before I got married to the design. I’ve responded back asking for more specifics about what the client would like to replace the rejected elements with.
On Friday I received my copy of
Web ReDesign 2.0 and started reading through it. This book is definitely going to be a very valuable resource for me as figure out my workflow and business practices. I’m very grateful to Leslie of EllisLab for recommending this book.
Saturday June 28 2008
Time gone
My wife has to go into work all weekend - that means no progress on client site. Gotta watch the kids. This is unfortunate as last night I started making some good progress on my photoshop comp and have been inspired. Hopefully I can keep my ideas flowing on to pen and paper and then translate to photoshop later.
I also need to work on my latest newspaper column due Sunday night.
Friday June 27 2008
Wire Frame complete
Yesterday I sketched out my design for the client using paper and pencil. At that time I also set up the dimenions of the various blocks in pixels. Then in the evening I opened up photoshop and recreated the sketch with exact measurement so that I know what it looks like on the screen. So far I’m satisfied with everthing though I may extend the header another 24 or 48 pixels.
Using sites that the client likes I’ve decided on a number of elements that I would like to use - the design borrows ideas from several sites, but will combine them in an unique manner with some of my own additions. In the end there should be some similarities to his current site to create continuity across designs yet large change to create a feeling of newness and uniqueness. The design will also strongly fit into the blogs industry, education - this being an easy one for me since I teach and also did my own teaching blog theme.
I intend to have a comp ready by the end of the weekend to submit to the client for suggestions and revisions. Since he is off to a conference and then family vacation, I may have some time before receiving feedback. If that’s the case I’ll start a rough layout in HTML/CSS and then if I have more time, I’ll start work on my own portfolio site since I’d really like to get it up soon.
Hopefully my workflow makes sense, but if it doesn’t or readers have suggestions I’m open.
