The Joy of Redesign II

Yesterday I got in a hurry and just wanted to have something up for the links that I created for my site. I don't like having links that don't work, even if it is only temporarily.

I spent a lot of time redesigning my site, and creating a photo journal to rival all my other photo journals. I have done one for Joe and Amber Bruner, and I have done one for Cribby and Jenni, but neither of them had this many pictures. Last night I finished with around 90 pictures just for Nikki's wedding. I started out with about 160, but after I looked through them I realized that a lot of them were either out of focus, or just too repetitive. I think a photo journal should be comprehensive, sort of like a documentary, giving you enough information so that if you were unable to be at the wedding, then you could get a general idea of what the wedding was like.

So yesterday, I threw together a few designs knowing that I needed to have pages set up for my old blogs, and links created for my photo blogs. All of the new pages are very different than anything I have ever done as far as backgrounds go. These backgrounds are all from www.squidfingers.com and to me they look really old fashioned, like wall paper from the 70's and 80's, but that is kind of what makes them cool. Another note on design, a lot of times when people design they try to make things appear masculine or feminine. Surprise! There's design out there that is neither, it is just good design, creating a look that everyone will appreciate.

So, if you are wondering- why aren't the new pictures posted? Where is this new Photo Journal? Well, it's still on my home computer. Last night I worked on it until after 11 and I then I realized I was out of CD's to burn the Journal on so I could upload it at work.