A new design for my website

This the new and actually first original design for this website. Having used an altered version of Hemingway template for so many months I put to sleep the most difficult problem each designer faces: to build a template for himself.

So how do you design for yourself? Typically it must be something which represents you… it is very hard indeed. It is almost impossible to stride away from you and design for you. It is a friend, lexx who put the issue so I could ignore it no more.

So I designed a new template because:

• I needed to build my own template the same way an architect designs his own house
• I wanted to have all the content easily approachable by every visitor
• I wanted my template to be powerful and flexible according to my needs

How this design was made

I started with some static designs in Photoshop but I soon flew to Illustrator for a number of reasons I wrote recently. My sources were magazines such as WIRED and newspapers. Generally I found a lot of ideas in places out of the Web e.g. tags of clothes. Opening up my horizons was relieving.

All things concerning code were pretty easy. My choice was Wordpress and remains so because Wordpress can do all the things I need and a lot more. For a moment I was between Wordpress and Expression Engine but the support of the latter was not the one I expected. So I left it behind and I might look it again in the future.

This site has been build according to Semantic Web rules, passes all validation tests and it reachable to people with disabilities. It can be approached easily without loading the CSS files or with Javascript disabled. All pages are accessible by a keyboard. For more you can look at the About this website section.

The final result stands close to what I wanted. During the next days I am going to correct some minor flaws. Generally, this is it, I hope you like it and I hope I will still like it after some months.