Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Reviving my inner geek

In the past year or more I’ve become comfortable, complacent, and… oh all right, yes I’ve become lazy. What kind of a self-proclaimed geek has a five-year old cell phone, a six-year old computer, and a “professional” website that hasn’t been been updated in seven years? *coughLOSERcough*

Thanks to some needed prodding from my beloved girlfiend, I’ve decided to take action on multiple fronts. I’ll spread the details across multiple posts, but my current project is to completely revamp my website offering web design services (http://www.pennydragon.com). It is sooooo pitifully out of date and not representative of my current skillset at all. Here’s what’s there currently:

Bear in mind that when I created this, I had never had a real web design job. It was mostly taking designs that actual designers made and building/coding them. I was happy with it at the time, but now it just looks cute and childish. I want to pull my site out of the land of novices and into the world of polished professionalism. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

I’m still working on the content and the layout of all the text, but it’s more or less the direction I want to go in. I also plan on adding a couple snazzy features to make it seem more impressive… though I’m not quite sure what at the moment, heh. Any opinions? Better to get any changes in before I start coding, so any thoughts as an end user would be much appreciated, thanks!