alan crissey / graphic designer » Uncategorized http://www.alancrissey.com A graphic designer in the Atlanta area, discussing anything and everything creative. Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:00:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Never Satisfied http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/83 http://www.alancrissey.com/archives/83#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:29:55 +0000 Alan http://www.alancrissey.com/?p=83

I know my friends hear me complain about this all the time.

For some reason I’m never happy with what I design for myself. It’s so much harder to assign a look to yourself and your own work than it is to do the same for a company or another individual. Really strange. So I’ve changed the look of the site again, but left the layout the same. And I still need to get the ‘Work’ section done, and redo the ‘About’ page. So I apologize that there still isn’t more content.

I’ll try to find some more entertaining stuff to post on here til then. Let me know if you love/hate the new look. I’ve got some sketchbooks I need to look through for some elements to add, I think I’m going for a sort of Sealab type theme…

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I‘ve been saying I was going to do this for almost a year. Finally, I have gotten around to setting up a functional, expandable, and community-inclusive website for myself. It’s about time. I am so indecisive when it comes to designing for myself that it is absolutely ridiculous. This layout was design number 18. And that’s not including the sketches I have laying around. I’m still not completely happy with this, and I’ve still got some things to tweak, but at least it’s up. I will probably be changing the look every once in a while. It’s built on Wordpress, which is a lot more powerful than I ever thought it could be.

For those of you who don’t know, Wordpress is a great little invention. Originally designed for blogs, it’s matured into a full content management solution which makes the lives of people like me a bit easier. Learning it on the level that was necessary for me to customize it like this was a bit difficult and time consuming, but it was worth it. So if you’re a web designer and you have yet to learn Wordpress, I highly encourage you to bite the bullet and learn it.

Anyway, if this is your first time to my site, welcome, and thanks for visiting. Come back every once in a while if it looks like there’s going to be anything of interest for you in the future. I promise I’m going to keep this updated pretty regularly.

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