Resources: I’ll be going in and deleting about 80-90% of the designs there. I’ve matured, the net has matured, but most of them didn’t age gracefully. If there’s something that you can’t bear to part with, download it now. Hopefully, I shall replenish the section with better designs now that my interest has sparked again.
Sketches: Some things that I was working on before school started.
- Top-left: Background of what’s to be a wishing tree although it’s looking promising as the backdrop of the other sketch… I decided to do a bit of scenery again.
- Top-right: I love cuddling/comfort scenarios =P
- Bottom-left: Some perspective practice. The angle is still off.
- Bottom-right: Two sketches here, actually. Conductor in one; some wanderer in the other.
Misc: I’m tempted to do some reviewing again. To get me started, I will signed up for rev.iew.me. Captious Pedants is still on indefinite hiatus. I think we all underestimated what an undertaking it would be, but it was a good run. But if my opinion still matters to you, you’ll find me at rev.iew.me =)
I admit, it was fun looking through all the iterations. Certainly, I went through more than 3, but I left out the more incremental ones because I only have the PSD versions of them; the changes were small enough that I was able to make the adjustments by modifying the CSS with minimal new graphics.
I’m still somewhat fond of version 1.0, but I imagine it’s a little over the top. I don’t what provoked me to put up 1.2. It doesn’t look as bad as a screenshot; hover, with a wide screen, the elements will look very detached from the header.
I still like version 2, but it was becoming increasing inadequate. To accommodate the disappearing 800-resolution population, the interface looked narrow on my desktop and even more so on my widescreen laptop. I lightened the background in version 2.1 to give an illusion of more space which was a cheap hack. If I were add the case studies from my courses, scrolling would be a bitch. Furthermore, the back-end was a bit too messy for my taste. To achieve the rounded corners, I had to use a handful of unnecessarily markup in addition to code needed to suppress IE6’s peek-a-boo flicker.
To address these issues, I present version 3.1: simple, clean, fluid, flexible. It was still missing something. It was plain, bland, and somewhat feminine with all that soft blue. It didn’t have that punch that I was looking for. So came version 3.2 with a hot magenta as my accent colour. I like a lot more. If it’s girly, it’s not feminine, it’s chic–more graphic. It makes a better statement, I think.
http://www.signedbyv.com
I’m still not completely satisfied with how some of the pages are laid out, but that could wait. Please let me know if you run into any problems.
Problems Solved and Lessons Learned
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Sketches: Some things that I was working on before school started.
