So in the time since my last post, I have launched two websites for work, both of which I mentioned in my previous post.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Golden Triangle site was launched on Thursday (2/4). It’s a very small site, done on a very small budget, but we’ll probably be adding more to it over time. The Monroe County site was also launched, but I will not be linking to that one… I really wish they would have let me get in there and fix and improve upon it, but that hasn’t happened. But it’s evidence of the difficulties one sometimes faces when a project changes hands (or designers) mid-development—no real organization or direction, unclear message/lack of focus, etc. Chalk it up as a lesson learned I suppose.
Next week I’ll be working on updates to the Form Trainer site. I’ve learned quite a bit of new tricks since I developed that site last fall, and am going to make some pretty cool changes, most of which will be relatively transparent to the end-user but should help the site in the future.
In the non-Web world of work, I’ve finally gotten back into the habit of drawing on a mostly-daily basis. I have quite a few sketches going at the moment, most of them unfinished or close to being finished. I’ve also committed to a sort of drawing group that will be working together over Google Wave to collaborate on individual projects. Two people in the group are friends from grad school, and the rest are friends of one of them. We’ll basically be taking basic shapes and all creating characters/designs based on those shapes, just as a sort of side exercise to keep each other moving forward in learning and improving our skills. I will probably post the results of these weekly sketch sessions right here on CS, so feel free to check back periodically.
Tomorrow I finally plan to buckle down and start sketching and wireframing some designs for this site and my pro site. I’ve already got a color scheme in mind for both, and a relatively rough sketch for a logo for this site, but that’s about as far as I’ve had time to get. I’m hoping I can crank up some Pandora, sit down at my drawing desk and get some creativity flowing. As tempted as I am to just get something, anything up on here, I’d rather take my time and craft something that fits my standards. Plus, the fact that I’ve got to use WordPress on two sites I’ve worked on recently has seriously improved my understanding of how WordPress works, which should help me have a better idea of how to proceed with designing elements needed.
Well that’s all I can ramble about, so I’m off to play some Final Fantasy 7.
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