Create Sean: Journey to Professional Designer

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.