Monday, June 10, 2002
Some site redesign today. Still too constrained, too generic, too much left of the default templates for me to feel like this is me yet.
Doing design work for someone else is always a bigger job than it seems, if only because it never fails to throw me into fits of dissatisfaction with my own stuff. Invariably, that leads to much fretting and constant redesigns (or in this case, initial designs). At the very least, it’s a new beginning. Long-needed changes in this site’s look and feel (above what is done already) should occur in the next week or so. Unless they don’t.
The problem for me as far as websites are concerned has always been that I’ve always felt like I’m better at expressing myself graphically than with words. So the temptation that I’ll have to avoid is to tinker endlessly with layout and design and forget completely about adding new “meat” to the site — all while making sure that what I’m putting in is more like filet mignon and less like ground chuck.
With that, I think it’s time to sleep. Here’s a random but interesting link, since we’re talking about meat.
Redesign looks great! Personally I don’t think you should worry about frequent redesigns since (a) it’ll no doubt take you a while to find your right layout, since you are such a visual perfectionist, (b) it’s one of the things you’re good at, so why cramp your own style. But whatever. Glad you’ve been updating again.