It’s been a long time coming. My old site had been up for over four years, and although I always managed to keep the work up to date it never really fit me stylistically. The redesign started out as purely visual (as it does for most designers) but really progressed into a rethinking of me online. I’ve added sharing features, commenting that integrates into social networks, links to all my social profiles, and have re-architected my site by removing or reorganizing about half the nav items that had been bolted onto the old site as it grew over time. I think the largest change comes in the form of this blog. In the past I had very rudimentary blogging capabilities on my site (which was really an rss feed being parsed by Coldfusion) and now have a full WordPress blog, stuffed with plug-ins and fully integrated into my site.
I’ve started working on a new post detailing the IA, design and build process for this site – hoping that some of what I went through in the build can help out other designers trying to showcase their work online. There is still polishing I want to do (validation errors, better seo, missing content) but even showing how the site gets tweaked and polished over time could be interesting to people just starting out, or struggling with the how/why of portfolio sites.
Special thanks to Amy Stein and Mike Mignano for their design and css input.
Eric
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