After finding a full-time roll in London the purpose of my site has shifted from being a promotional tool to a creative outlet. I want my reboot to reflect that.

I felt my old design was getting a bit tired and after the problems I was having with my old database I had been planning a re-build/design for a while. My old website was built when i was a recent graduate and was orientated around promoting myself, the blog was a by product at the time, while i enjoyed writing (well more ranting but if you can’t rant here, where can you rant?) it wasn’t the focus. After finding a full-time roll in London the purpose of my site had shifted from being a promotional tool to a creative outlet. I want my reboot to reflect that.

I thought I would make my first post May 1st Reboot Centric.

Key Gripes

• Built in Flash – Poor medium choice (again) for a project such of this. There is little animation and many of the effects could have been produced with CSS and one of the JS frameworks. I had hoped they might change it after last year.
• Sound Effects & Music – A personal peeve. When i’m at my computer i’m usually listening to iTunes, please don’t inflict your (often poor) musical tastes on me!
• Difficult Interface (Nav & User Experience) – Total lack of labeling makes navigating around the site an unnecessarily long and drawn out affair.

I love the concept, the idea of bringing the creative community together on one day to celebrate our re-designs in unison, giving & receiving feedback, networking, making new friends. They are all reasons i’m part of this industry, they are the reasons I get up in the morning. It’s all about community spirit.