This site’s design is reaching a crossroads. I am starting to remove major elements of the Viewport theme in a move to increase the site’s usability and layout aesthetics. This move is being done with special category templates for the web and interactive sections of my portfolio. I have removed the sliding panels and opted to have projects tile themselves down the page. In addition each category archive now pulls in special page content that serves as a description. A note about this description, I’m using CSS3 columns for the first time. Safari and Firefox users will now see eye friendly columns instead of a super wide block of text. The key now is to actually fill these portfolio sections with projects.
This brings me a decision on what to do with the blog category and the homepage. For now I’m going to to keep the sliding panels but I think it can be done better. I’m thinking that on the homepage I want to try and figure out a way to include only the latest blog post and then start listing out my favorite portfolio projects. I am also going to add a panel at the end that will list out my most recent blog and twitter posts. As for the blog archive I’m going to have to think of a new presentation but I suppose what’s in place now will suffice. Time to start hacking the home page!
Wow, I’m very impressed. I am not a web developer or programmer. I am a photo guy and I want to have my own site and theme so I can break away from the Blogspots of this world. I started with trying to work with the spotless theme and moved onto the viewport theme in an attempt to get something up and running asap. It’s all a little much for me regardless and I think I may have to go back to my old ways…lol
I really just wanted to comment on how cool the site is and how I’m just a touch jealous…
Keep up the cool work!