Rediscovering the Road Not Taken …

Well I am still slogging along. I spent hours trying to sort out the div tags today - it’s only a few tags but my head almost exploded in frustration to get stuff lined up right. Finally got the basics done enough and I turned them into templates for the CMS I am using. Lots more has to be done but it is starting to take shape.

http://www.stormvisions.com

I have a couple pages of sketches I need to scan Monday and then will post. I’m also trying out the Illustrator lessons on Lynda.com as we only had two short classes on it in school. I hope to get a paid subscription soon but for now I think I have one more day on my trial so I’ll be up late watching as many videos as I can. I hope that getting some basic Illustrator skills will increase my employability..

I have started to work on a redesign for my site. I am not comfortable enough to do all the interaction in Flash so I may go static. I’m just drawing it now and then will convert it to a template that works with the CMS I am using. I’ve always created boxy design - the sites I owned in the past have been content sites so the object was always having a neat hierarchy so people could drill down and find a specific tutorial or download. Plain, ugly and boring.

I’m going to try something more like a kid’s storybook this time. Here is a shot of the main page in progress.

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