Been a while since I’ve posted, had some downtime on the server and also potentially three new projects in the pipeline (nice) and have been designing some new themes for the site. Anyway, for a long time now I have wanted, thought about and considered the possibility of running my own movie review site. Why? I hear you scream. It has not entirely escaped my notice that IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes are already out there, not to mention around about twenty-bizillion other review sites, some of which are rather nice.
Miles is very happy with this new site, and I am very pleased with what is essentially my first start-to-finish web design.
Having sent my three initial concept designs to Miles we went through and decided upon which of each we liked and which parts we didn’t. Also to be taken into consideration at this time was whether to use Wordpress as a base to build the site.
I was recently approached by Miles Murphy, a video editor based in London, to create a complete start to finish website to showcase his portfolio of work. This posed a first chance for me to undertake a project from design through implementation with almost every aspect of the sites design and code left entirely up to me.
I recently completed an entire website recoding project for Rob McCarthy on his personal design site. Rob is a print, layout and web designer currently working for WDL Designs in Colchester. I approached Rob with a proposition of turning his personal design and portfolio site into a clean coded Wordpress site.
In this post I am going to talk about some of the coding decisions I made to achieve the look and feel of the theme. The theme in itself was designed to be ‘simple’ as its working title suggested, so the code was fairly straight forward with nothing too expansive. Nevertheless, I did discover some new snippets of code so I thought I would share.
I have published the new theme for my blog, unable to think of a clever or funny name I’ve decided to call it “Feeling Pinky”. It is still under the final stages of development, just ironing out the creases which are bound to appear the more I add to the site.
I will just run through some of the design features and some of the changes I’ve made from the Photoshop mock-up I discussed in my previous post.
I have drawn up a basic design in Photoshop for a new theme for the site. Once again i have taken creative measures in naming this theme – “simple”.
My hope is to make this the ‘default’ theme for the website; it is clean, simple and uses all the familiar elements for a Wordpress blog. I will also reserve space under the header to display “alternative theme” screenshots for front-end users to browse and choose a theme which best suits them.
So, the new theme is done; which i have creatively named “basic”. However, it doesn’t stop there.
