Designers are never happy
I still wasn’t quite happy with the design, so I changed it again. This time I’m using the 3 column version of the Fjords 01 by Peterandrej as my template. To personalize it, I added my favorite pic of me at Burning Man 2006 above the about column. It’s an infrared film shot of me taken by a fabulous photographer friend of mine Jacob Appelbaum.
With that photo as my guide, I used pic2color to get it’s color palette. These colors served as a basis for the new gradated quasi duotone of “Cows in the Mist.” Then I added the start of a bit of design flair with the transparent white polygon lines. The background pattern is courtesy of Squidfingers.
It’s bound to change some more. I’ll probably wake up tomorrow and hate something else about it.
p.s. I’m posting this with the awesome Performancing Firefox extension which I highly recommend.
Nice to see such impressive use of pic2color . Suggestion to improve pic2color are wellcome
I know what you mean re: never satisfied…. I like what you’ve done withe the floating boxes (Blog roll & Meta info). It’s an improvement on the Peter Andrej Fiords 1-2-3-4 column layout. I’m not a designer — just a neophyte with impatience– What I’m unhappy with is the big empty space that happens on the right as you scroll down. What I’d like is to see a template where the body column ( this one on the left) expanded and used more of the space below the two right columns.
Yeah, I know what you mean about the dead space as you scroll down. It’s not really an option to have this body column expand like you mention. While it might be possible, it would be difficult and it would require a massive restructuring of the template. Plus, I like regular column widths — I don’t really care for sites that are so fluid that the lines become 100 words long.
I could however permanently expand this body column a bit and still have all three columns work in 1024px. I was also thinking of adding more sidebar functionally to fill out that space, but only on the main page where it really gets long like that. I should brainstorm a bit about other ways to use that space maybe just something visual.