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Thinking About Rebranding
Since I’ve started freelancing and set up this website my skills and knowledge of web design have changed drastically. I’ve had time to look over other web designers websites and have been envious of there designs. Now whenever I look at my website there are so many things that I want to change but just haven’t had the time to do. I think it’s time to set aside some time for myself and my brand and work on a new design for my website, brand new logo, and everything else that comes along with it.
Problems with my current brand
Logo – I used to love my logo, now not so much. I’m not quite sure what’s happened from then till now, but I think I’m looking for something a little simpler.
Website isn’t dynamic – Since I created my current website my skill set has increased greatly. A few things that I’ve added to my belt is some php, wordpress as cms, and a bit of jquery. I want to create a dynamic website using these new found tools.
More social integration – Right now my website is behind a few years mainly because it doesn’t have any kind of social integration i.e. twitter, facebook, digg, and all those others. I use these things but don’t have a way for people to know about them when they visit my website.
Overall visual appeal – My website right now is too dark, I want to get away from that with my new design. I want to make it look more professional but also let it show more of my personality, maybe showcase a bit of my illustration skills.
Inspiration
I’ve mentioned that I’ve been inspired by a few designers websites, so here they are:
After seeing these don’t you want to redesign your website!?
My Favorite Website This Week
This is one of the most useful generators I’ve come across recently. Finally a generator that will create CSS sprites automatically, no more loading images in photoshop and piecing them together (although I love photoshop). This makes it quick and painless to reduce the number of http requests on the page for smaller images.
My Freelance Web Design Process: Part 2
If you want to see the whole progression I suggest you go to part 1.
Step 3: Don’t even touch that computer!
After I’ve collected all the information that I need, I put my computer to sleep and take out the old notebook and BRAINSTORM!
Sketch sketch sketch, get all your ideas down before you start coding. Here’s an example of what one of my sketches look like:
notebook
They are usually a lot messier than this but for the sake of your eyes I cleaned one up a bit.
My Freelance Web Design Processs: Part 1
This is mostly for me as well as it is for anyone who reads this. I mainly want to see how my design process changes over the years. This is going to be a many part series, don’t know how many yet. So here goes!
Step 1: So I’ve got the clients interest, now what?
I send out a routine email asking a few questions that help me understand more about the client and what they want and need.