FINALLY got some portfolio stuff up for Kristy Valshan… FINALLY! It’s only been what A FRICKIN’ YEAR?!?!?!
I don’t know why I have such a hard time designing my own websites. I always have. And all the items that I wanted to originally put on the KV website just made the website grow into a monster before it even got off the ground (sounds like so many ideas I have). I have no problem with the conception of monster projects… it’s the execution of them I get derailed on. The project seems so intensive before I even get started that I ended up not doing it.
Jeanine and I decided about 3 weeks ago to change the KV site to be very simple and put only 3-4 designs out in the portfolio. You think that would be easy for me? yeah… think again… Even a “simple” site took two full revisions and I still was not happy with the results… the shell changed, the design was awful and there STILL was no portfolio out there. sigh… (you may have seen the one over the past two weeks – the first didn’t stay up past 2 hours)
Not sure what happened to me this weekend but I just started working on it… thought we should have a bit of color. While I really like a black and white design because it doesn’t clash with our designs – we can put any color palette out there and it’ll still match – it really doesn’t matter much without a portfolio now does it? But my two “simple” renditions were way too blah looking.. Not that what I have out there now is any great shakes… but I think it’s much better… I actually enjoyed working on the site to the point of even adding tracking links for our linked in accounts, facebook, twitter and blogs.
So my weekend ended up being devoted to the KV website. It certainly was not planned that way. But once I started getting on a roll Saturday morning I just rode the wave… It was the first time in a very very long time that I actually stayed up late to work. So about 25 hours later (seriously that’s what I spent between Sat & Sun)… we have a nice site with a FRICKIN’ PORTFOLIO!!! WOO HOO!! About damn time….
EDIT – I will add this though… the KV site had already gone through one big content rendition so this time I was able to just change the design out (keeping all the new content – like bios and tradeshow info etc.) and just add the portfolio section. Maybe that’s why this was better?? Some of it was already done so it wasn’t completely from scratch… lol! Just needed to be inspired I guess… or maybe just enjoy it for a change…