10
Jan
As you may have noticed, I finally launched my latest redesign. I’ve been working on a new design for PKR since I launched the last one really. I became unsatisfied with that design pretty quickly and wanted something cleaner and more structured. After running through several versions and an unbelievable amount of color schemes, I finally had something that I thought would be worthy of putting online.
My first goal when diving into this redesign was a cleaner look and a lighter color scheme. I went with a more natural look this time. I kept some aspects of Chapter 2 including the city scape, chibi head and pkr logo. I wanted to scrap the footer and instead of games and music replaced them with latest tweets, latest Gowalla checkins and recent bookmarks on Delicious. Another addition is the ‘Social’ section with icons linking to the many social sites that I use most. I also added a more noticeable way to subscribe to my RSS feed. (more…)
05
Oct
The time has come at least. This new chapter of paperkilledrock.com has been about a year in the making. This design has been trashed so many times that I think I’ve got about 3 completed layouts sitting on my mbp. However, I couldn’t wait any longer and needed to get the new design online. Behind the scenes is html5 and plenty of CSS3. (more…)
09
Aug
Well I made it through the first week working at DigiMedia and I gotta say, I loved it. It is a bit of a big change from freelancing from home but I was expecting that. I love having to go to work each day and being around other developers and designers and working on larger projects. I spent most of this week in Photoshop cranking out graphics. The rest of the time was spent finishing a WordPress project that was already started. Fixing errors, setting up some new plugins, and other things of that nature. I got a crash course on their Ad Manager which is just massive and look forward to messing with it more and ending up giving a quick class on WordPress to some retail people. Overall it was a pretty good week and I think I will enjoy working there. Another plus with the new job is having to learn Ruby. As you know, I’ve wanted to for awhile but client work always got in the way. However, with most of the work at DigiMedia being done in Ruby this gives me a chance to finally learn it. I have some books that I’m going through and several people I can turn to for help if needed.
Besides starting the new job this month we will also be moving in the coming weeks. We are still debating on a house or apartment, either way we plan to rent. Between me just starting the new job and Melissa planning to change from online classes at Uni of Phoenix Online to local classes here at Midwestern State University for nursing starting in January we just aren’t sure what would be better for us. Either way it will only be for 2-3 years.
I am also attempting to finish my redesign. I posted a screen of it on flickr awhile back and got lots of great feedback. I have started coding it to WordPress and just about done with the main page but still have several things to do. The problem is client work is on top of my list right now and taking up most of my evenings and weekends so I’m having to make time for my projects which right now there just isn’t enough of. I would like to have it done by the end of the month. As next month is full as well between getting settled into the new place and taking a mini-vacation to Kansas to see Melissa’s grandparents.
