It’s been a few years since I first launched pixelfork.com, and a lot has changed in that time. First, my daughter was born; second, Hurricane Katrina made a mess of things, and third, I’ve moved to Austin as my wife finishes graduate school. However, the biggest thing that has changed since pixelfork’s inception is that my client base has grown, and most of them aren’t restaurants. Pixelfork started out with the mantra “web design for the restuarant industry,” but as my client base has changed, the direction of pixelfork has changed with it.
So I thought it was time to redesign the site to reflect the evolving entity that is pixelfork.com. First, while I still mention restaurants, the site no longer focuses exclusively on that market. Instead it now has a more general approach. I also mention theme-design for Wordpress blogs, though soon I will be adding Expression Engine as a content management and blogging platform that I can handle.
As for the design itself, the biggest departure is that the entire site is now only one page, though I offer two ways of viewing it, vertically and horizontally. My portfolio is viewable using the Slimbox plugin for Mootools, creating a large, navigable screenshots for each site.
In pixelfork.com’s last version, I had included a blog, which I have now removed. Honestly, it was just too much to try to blog on two different sites. I decided in lieu of the blog, to simply have a “Latest Project” area at the top of the site to feature, well, my latest project.
That’s it in a nutshell. There are a few bells and whistles added that I didn’t mention here, and I may soon add a downloadable Wordpress template section. And of course, in the middle of any design or redesign, you’re automatically thinking about the next design, so who knows, in another year or so I may switch it up again.
