In the three years since I last redesigned benbishop.me.uk, my personal blog, there have been significant developments in web design. From CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) frameworks like The Blueprint, JavaScript library’s like jQuery to development WordPress themes like Sandbox, all have been designed to decrease development time from concept to implementation.
‘Refracted’ is the product of three years experience with commercial clients and the implementation of many of these techniques.
Design
I had the idea of the logo image in my head for a while and was quite determined to go with a light and vibrant design. Contrasting significantly with the previous ‘Satin’ theme, a light text on dark background theme, I wanted ‘Refracted’ to feel like a change from the old.
222 days!
222 days since I last posted. Some could accuse me of being slack or distracted and it could be a combination of the two. The truth is that, thankfully I have been very busy and I have learnt a lot since I launched this site originally nearly 3 years ago.
When I went live with the first version of the site, it was the first time I had implemented a WordPress driven site and I was naive with the way I planned it all out. With a lack of understanding regarding the architecture of web design and WordPress I installed a ‘blog’ in a sub folder called news. So while updating blog or news posts was done through the dashboard of WordPress making any changes to the site’s static pages was a tiresome job.
I am pleased to announce that FreeStyled has gone live. Profiling the best soccer freestylers from across the globe they are aiming to be the no.1 freestyle site on the web.
Using the latest web standards and methodology to design and code the site, Freestyled taps in to the social video site YouTube (utilising the api) adding a depth of content unavailable years ago. Take a look.
freestyled.co.uk
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