I’ve been  looking at my blog and it depresses me. I have the generic wordpress theme (functional but not quite stylish), but feel that it needs something more. I’ve begun to think more about the look and feel of how I want to present the material.

brainstorm

Above is a quick image (sorry for the quality) of a starting phase of how where I want to go. Honestly, I’ve been thinking about this for a while, so this probably doesn’t capture the essence of what I have in my head. I need to keep in mind that I need both a graphically but functional site. I need to be able to showcase large images in an organized fashion. Here are a few things that I need to keep in mind:

  • Needs to be simplistic.
  • I will be using a light/soft colour palette scheme.  (Just because I don’t tend to favour a darker screen…) I like greys and whites, and touch of red for some punch.
  • I’d like to keep the graphics minimal since I don’t have time to come up with new graphics.
  • I have to keep the coding extremely simple and easy. I need to work with wordpress and its capabilities
  • I need to make each post distinguishable from each other. Good CSS coding is key!
  • I will be designing for min.  screen size of 800×600. Concerns for other screen formats will need to be placed on the back burner for now.