Portfolio 2.0

Posted in design by Jake Tracey on February 20th, 2007

It was high time that this site got an update, so here it is... my Portfolio 2.0. The new design has been in the cooker for a couple of months now, with tons of iterations, different features and platforms - it is my personal toy, anyway :)

What we've got here is a synergy of a few different techniques I have been experimenting with lately. The most noticable feature of the site is, of course, the gallery, which I implemented using JonDesign's SmoothGallery, an absolutely incredible script built on top of the Moo.fx interface library.

The design that was finally chosen is definately the most simple and clean, and I feel that it suits the nature of the site well, with understated menus and graphics drawing the eye to the feature gallery.

I decided to teleport a few visual aspects from the old design, such as the maroon headings rockin' their nice Serif fonts.

The backend is once again based upon a highly modified Typo base. I made extensive changes to the Administration parts of the application and hope to commit my changes back to the project sometime in the near future.

In terms of content, there will be a few changes around here. Since leaving my position at Acumentum, I feel that I have the time to blog on a regular basis once again, so I will do my upmost to keep this updated often with new news, thoughts and tips on UI and web development. I've added the special type of blog, a 'braindump' which is essentially what its named - a quick set of links and thoughts dumped from my brain as often as I can manage.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new site, thanks for dropping by!


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