For those of you who don’t know, I also do website design on the side for other people and companies. I just finished this site for PhageVax. I just thought I’d share it since this is one of the many things that has been taking up my time while my family is sick with the flu.
About the Theme
It is a wordpress-based, minimalistic theme with a rotating transparent header image overlay. I didn’t need comments, so I axed that element along with trackbacks to keep the site more manageable and user friendly. Using the background for the search box was a really nice touch I thought to make it look like a cutout area. I also added a widget area and used the image widget plugin to make the logo one that I could update easily without playing with css.
If you are interested in a wordpress-based design for your site, leave a comment and we can arrange a call to go over the details.
I am working today on a new wordpress theme for churches and ministries. There’s really not too much to see just yet, lots of editing of css. I will say that it’s more graphically oriented than many of my projects… I may actually be able to release it this afternoon if I keep at it. Who knows? Between a baby and a puppy, I might get something done.
I have been playing around with vector graphics over the last month and have really started to enjoy it. The above image is one I came up with for a t-shirt concept to advertise decloned. I think it fits the new style and direction of the site. I plan to include a few more around here for different elements and some more t-shirt designs, but mainly it’s just for fun.
Since the redesign and the new elements, I’ve noticed a few things. Namely, much higher pageviews and rankings in blog directories. There’s been a lot of new people stopping by.
I thought I’d share some quick vector sketches with you that I did on my Wacom tablet for casual practice.
Today has been an interesting day. I’ve embarked on some new blog projects with a friend (not yet to be named). Some of these projects are potentially big deals and could be pretty good investments of time and energy, but most of all they promise to be fun.
So I spent some time today on putting together a business card for my wife. I erased the phone number for presentation here, but I am pretty pleased with the outcome.
Written on April 20, 2008 by William Lehman in Uncategorized
Over the last few days I’ve been thinking about how I could redesign the church site to function better visually. I had been using an older template that was only lightly modified with two sidebars on either side.
The Problems
The old site was hard to navigate. The logo was too large. Smaller screen resolutions had trouble with it. Upon viewing, a visitor would be met with a link to everything at once. Information fatigue was probably an issue with the site. I know that I would feel overwhelmed upon seeing it. I wouldn’t know where to click first.
The solution
The more that I have played with this theme (WP Premium) the more I like it’s versatility. I have grown used to modifying it and decided that it was also a good solution for the church site. I don’t want it too look the same of course, so I brightened it up and gave it back some of it’s curves. I also revamped the logo to work with the theme. Here’s the final version of the church site.
In case you missed it, Sprout is a new service that allows you to create an embeddable flash object anywhere you can drop a few lines of html.
