Site Redesign Completed

I’ve been saying for a while that I need to redesign my site. I was using a nice template but there was no color and I didn’t like the fonts. For those of who that read the RSS feed, make sure you get over to the site when you get a chance.

If you couldn’t tell, I did the design myself. Now I have more respect for what web designers do. But I tried to make it as easy as possible by using the sandbox wordpress theme to build on top of. I just had to choose a color scheme and modify the style sheet.

I chose my color theme by choosing a base color (the green at the top of the site) and then I went to the Kuler web site that Adobe Labs has created to find and create color schemes. That was a handy tool that I’m sure I’ll be using in the future. Anyway, after picking the base color I could find colors that went well with it using the color science that I know absolutely nothing about.

Currently, I use eclipse as my development environment. That includes web development. I downloaded a trial version of Dreamweaver to use that initially to see if I was missing out on something. Dreamweaver was nice but it is not worth the price for me personally. I’ll continue using eclipse, although there is room for improvement, especially with the web development tools.

Please let me know what you think of the design. Color scheme? Fonts? I know there are a few issues that I need to work out. Let me know if you find any. It is definitely a work in progress, so leave any suggestions if you have any.