Weekly Wrap: The Redesign
It’s 3:49 AM as I am writing this post. I just recently came up with a new format that I would like to start here on Design Informer and it is called "Weekly Wrap." Every weekend, I will be writing a post about the best and most interesting articles/tutorials/reviews/freebies of the week. But the only difference from this and the other similar posts from the other blogs is that mine will not be in list form, but it will follow an article format. Oh, and I forgot, I will also be inserting little tidbits here and there about how my week went and what I got accomplished, etc. So anyway, here it goes.
The Weekly Wrap
This past week, I finally came out from hibernation and published a new post which was about running a design business. By the way, the post was written by Duane Kinsey. The reason for the long pause on the blog was because I was busy with work, freelance projects, and I was redesigning my personal portfolio. It took me about two and a half weeks to finish the redesign. Could it have been because I stink at design? Oh, and did I mention that I also played around with transparency on my new website? You can see an example of it here. I also used CSS3 to connect the dots on my site. I am a little curious if my CSS renders efficiently and whether or not I’m using the best-practices with my coding?
I’m not the only one who redesigned my site though, Brian Hoff completely revamped his site as well. Apparently, Mr. Collis Ta’eed noticed that this was redesign week because he also redesigned Creattica.
Anyway, enough about redesigns, let’s talk a little bit about the community. If I remember correctly, there was a great "how to" article that I read about moving your WordPress site. Since we are on the subject of websites, let me as you a question. "Is your website responsive?" Here’s another question for you to think about. Are All Graphic Designers Logo Designers? So which of the two questions do you prefer to answer?
Well, I just want to wish WordPress a Happy 7th Birthday. I’ll end it with that.
febri
May 29th, 2010 8:31 pmHaha… Good wrapping style Jad…
Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:24 pmThanks! :D
Mauco
May 30th, 2010 5:40 pmHi Jad, great redesign! Well done. How can you claim you “stink” at design? LOL… you’re great!
Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:24 pmJust trying my best. Still learning everyday.
denbagus
May 30th, 2010 7:38 pmGood idea!
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Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:25 pmGlad you like it.
guidoguido
May 30th, 2010 10:36 pmHi Jad,
I like this way of writing a wrap up, much more personal. It’s also nice that it’s short, usually everything I read are the longer articles these days, short ones like these are cool. Looking forward to your upcoming weekly posts.
Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:27 pmWell, I’ll try to keep them weekly but it might be just when there are enough interesting articles and posts to share.
inspirationfeed
May 31st, 2010 5:17 amGood idea but i think it will catch up with you later, i also wanted to do the same thing. I did Best of the Week, on inspirationfeed.com a combination of new great webdesigns, tweets, web 2.0 tools and articles. Sounded like a great idea to me but, soon i found out i didn’t have the time, and work was in the way. But don’t let me discourage you, if you have free time on your hands this will workout nicely.
Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:27 pmI know what you mean. I’m always wishing that I had more time to work on the blog.
Denny
May 31st, 2010 12:53 pmLove the minimalistic style of Jad Graphics and the layout of the comments. Pretty genius!
zanzu7
June 2nd, 2010 2:05 amGreat idea Jad. You always have something new. So what’s next? Looking forward to it.
Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:27 pmThanks Denny!
Joe
June 2nd, 2010 1:23 amNice little wrap up, Jad. I’m liking short, to the point posts lately as well. Nice work on the redesign of your site. The new Design Cubicle is so good. The new Creattica is nice, but I’m not sure I like the fixed header too well. I know it’s supposed to increase usability but it kinda drives me nuts.
Looking forward to more of these. Keep it up!
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Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:28 pmYeah, I’m not really a big fan of the fixed headers, I do like fixed sidebars though. I did it for my portfolio site and also for Heart Directed.
loswl
June 3rd, 2010 2:43 amNice Idea on the “Weekly Wrap” and I must say you are of to a great start. Seem like everyone is doing redesigns, I actually decided to revamp my portfolio site too, check it out when you have a chance: @ creativedonline.com
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Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:28 pmLooks great! Keep up the great work Mark.
Aziq
June 10th, 2010 3:48 pmI just love your redesign. Looks nice.
Jad Limcaco
June 10th, 2010 5:29 pmThank you very much for the compliment. :)