A new blog design has been LONG overdue… This time around I decided to really “design” something instead of my usual boring basic blog design.

I spent about 2-3 weeks creating the design in Photoshop.  I worked on it here and there.  I think it came out pretty nice.  After that, I spent about a week or so coding it – on and off.  In the past, I would usually find a free word press theme that I liked and tweak the code/design of that theme.  This time, I started with a completely blank wordpress design.

I came across a post on wordpress frameworks on Smashing Magazine.  I downloaded about 7-8 of them and took a look at the code to see which was more my style.  I ended up using one of Anna Linea’s frameworks as my starting point.  Along the way I learned some new coding tricks – and some old tricks that have been around for awhile but I was ignorant of.  I find that I like “designing” as much as I like “coding”.  It’s been so long since I’ve done both and I definitely enjoyed myself.

So what you now see is my “final” product.  I didn’t bother doing any cross browser checking so I have no clue how this looks in older browsers.  Hopefully not too bad.