Showing posts with label kidinacandystore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidinacandystore. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 July 2010

KIACS Online - New Design

Here is the latest design for my website.

If you compare the new design with the current design, it's clear to see how much my design ideas and quality of design as developed in just under a year.

Originally, my logo had 4 different colours and the font wasn't very modern looking. I've decided to stay with the layout of the logo (the words under each other) but I've decided to use a clear, funky font and just the green because it looks more slick, more fun and less rough.

The logo on the far right is my official logo, the arrow with a blue circle underneath, reflects the cycle of design, development and deliverance. By crossing it over with an arrow, this connotates a different "direction" in my work, and reflects my approach to design being clear, simple and effective.

I've continued to use the green and blue as the main colours for the website, dropping the red and white as these offered too much variation and detracted from the website development as I was trying to work with too many colours.

In terms of content, the website will house my graphic and website design work I've created over the last 2 or 3 years. Not only will there be a portfolio section with live previews of my work, but the blog will serve the purpose that this blog currently does. This will all be backed up by my twitter page, where users will be able to access my latest tweets, straight into the website.

I will be using HTML, CSS, PHP, MySql and probably (hopefully) jQuery where I can.

Overall, this new website design is sleek, modern, clean and effective. It will serve its purpose to a great standard and will be a design I am happy to keep for years to come hopefully.

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

KID IN A CANDY STORE: New site design

Well after having my current website online for about 6 or 7 months, I've decided it's time to give it a refresh to fit inline with my new portfolio, so that I create a new brand image and have business cards printed along the same lines.

Here is my new design for the site. It will be made in HTML and CSS as I feel my new skills in these areas will be able to create the site I want, which is an exciting opportunity for me to put my new skills into a design that will actually be used online. Also, producing the website in HTML and CSS will make it a lot easier to update and change when required, unlike using Flash, which takes a lot of time and concentration when adapting it to fit in new content.

However, I may still use Flash elements, depending on how the website forms over the coming months.

Sunday, 26 April 2009

My Own Website Online!

Well it's finally here! The first upload to my own website!
www.kidinacandystore.co.uk went online today with my Uni project to front the website.

Eventually the website will be re-designed and actually be relevent to me. At the moment, it's just a holding place until I know exactly the design I want.

Take a look and let me know what you think!