Gavin Wray // Carefully crafting content since 2001

Over the last few months, in between client work, I’ve been beavering away to transfer my static portfolio site over to WordPress and spruce up the visual design. At last, the new site is ready.

There are some areas that I’ll tweak further over the coming weeks, such as designing the comments in a more interesting way.

This is also an opportunity to start writing my own blog (well overdue, I know!), in addition to showing examples of my web and email design work. I’m planning to write about web and email design, tinkering with WordPress and other adventures in maintaining websites and web content.

This updated portfolio design, the fourth version, sticks with the green colour palette of version 3 yet makes heavier use of the green elements. The green and white palette is mainly taken from the British racing green Mini Cooper, with some influence drawn from the twilight woods in Guillermo del Toro’s film Pan’s Labyrinth.

Photo of Mini Cooper courtesy of Toni Viemerö

I’ve also chosen to use a dark background to provide some contrast and shape to the blog, while keeping the bulk of the actual content on a white background.

The portfolio navigation in the sidebar to browse by project type or style makes use of WordPress’ categories.

So, here it is. Time to stop the CSS tinkering — I’ve gone as far as I am prepared to in making the site compatible back to Internet Explorer 6 — and time to go live.

I’d really appreciate any feedback on the new look and navigation. Please do add a comment or get in touch.

Carefully posted on 20th November 2008
Filed under All work· Web design· WordPress
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