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26.2.10

Blog / Folio Redesign

I think its about time I refreshed my Blog/Portfolio with something a little cleaner. Something that doesn't rely heavily on a background image as its focal point and which isn't hosted by Blogger.

Over the pass two years almost, Blogger has done me proud and only cost me £6 for a domain. But I've grown out of its simplistic UI and lack of customisation options. I want more, and want to start from the ground up.

I've had a few ideas on how to "re-brand" myself, the one below being my favourite so far, but it will all change no doubt as I refine the idea and play about with it a bit more.



The main idea is to have a single band of colour stretching across the screen to show the user which page they are viewing. As the mouse hovers over the page titles, the corresponding coloured band will show to provide feedback.

Still not completely decided on the colour scheme, but over the coming weeks I'll play about some more in Photoshop, then start building it with HTML and css.

Looking forward to trying out some HTML5 features I've been reading about recently too.