B/ FINALLY FINISHED THE PORTFOLIO

It’s been through quite a few iterations but finally I think the bulk of the work on this portfolio is done! In my project folder I’m now up to “Portfolio Design 6”. I don’t think ‘sixth time’s the charm’ is going to catch on, but I guess 6 attempts is just what I needed!

Offensive Orange

All the different designs I’ve tried have always looked very different, from the overall theme to the shape and style of the website. But there’s been one constant through-out every single one, and that’s a heavy handed usage of this garish orange colour. At the start it was to add a bit of accent to an otherwise monotone design. But slowly I’ve actually started to quite like it. So I can only apologize if anyone’s retinas are burned out.

It’s gotten to the stage now that when people ask me what my favourite colour is, I say orange. Somehow there was a mutiny against blue and now orange has taken the throne.

A Portfolio Portfolio Piece

In a way, I suppose this website is in and of itself a portfolio piece since I’ve never created a website before, there was a lot of Googling CSS and throwing pasta at the wall to see what sticks so to speak. I wanted it to be eye-catching enough, but also to only use graphics and styles that I created. And fingers crossed that was achieved. Although that was most likely the easy part. The harder part is actually adding the content!

WordPress was a great help though too. The themes and ease at which you can customize the basic things about the website, like the header and menus. I would recommend it to others.

What now?

Now I just need to fill it. Somehow. All of the old, horrible and garish designs of old can just sit taking up a few gigabytes of my HDD. That was the easy part I guess!

Maybe I should have spent more time elsewhere… but that would have rid the world of such an offensively orange website!

I couldn’t have done that.