Featured. June 19, 2008
I’ve just been told that the design of this site has been featured over at the excellent Web Designer Wall 
Update: twice! At Smashing Magazine too: here.
CSS galleries don’t = popularity April 20, 2008
Of course, like any deisgner happy with their work, I submitted this new design to a long list of galleries. What happens? Well, the same as always, loads of hits on the first few days, then almost halving daily until a return to the same old low hits this blog recieves (~10-30 unique/day). Still, I don’t care, the aim of this blog isn’t to have a huge visitor base regularly commenting on articles, it’s to express all the pointless rubbish I think off
Introducing: Sketch March 15, 2008
That’s the name of the new design. Sketch.
I’ve been procrastinating for way to long to get this done, but it’s finally here. Out of all my design work I have ever done, this site has been the most complicated in code and the most taxing in design. I’m not a photoshop geek, in fact I normally skip photoshop in my ‘design’ process. Unfortunately, to create the look I was after, photoshop was needed.
Anyway, this is Sketch, and Sketch is my ‘Sketchpad’ on which I will ramble pointlessly, show of stuff I create and base my personal website. Design wise, I attempted to create something with all the sketchy/grungy/crazy feel I wanted, but without limiting the site or user in any way. The final issue was, of course, load times. I believe the images come to a total of 500kb, although some aren’t optimized and that value could probably be reduced, but is 500kb a lot with broadband speeds rocketing beyond 10mb these days? No, but the better quality images are worth it. The awesome looking writing is a font called ‘Pointy’ which can be found and downloaded free here.
That’s all I can really say on the new design, other than I hope you enjoy it, and, if you find any errors with my WordPress hackery, please tell me!
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Hey! I'm Nick Barrett and this is Pointless Ramblings. I work as a freelance web design/developer, student and co-founder of Kerplunc. Read more »
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