New year, new website, new blog!

Like the mechanic who looks at their own car last, or the plumber with dodgy pipes, I must confess I have been the designer without a complete website for quite some time now. Twelve months ago, I designed my new WordPress website, but I never got to update the portfolio, so still had a link to my old Wix site! Eeek.

New website

I thought I’d finally give the portfolio some love and share some of my work on my website. But of course, I could see that there was so much more I could do to improve my site, so inevitably a whole new website happened as well. All for the better though. And what a learning experience!

I had a complete rethink about my website content, as well as the design — reading articles and watching videos for inspiration. I also skilled up on the latest for web design and development on WordPress. Theme updates, plug-ins, CSS code and lots of googling ‘how-tos’ so that I could make it look and function how I wanted it.

Overall, I’m really happy with the final design (and functionality) I achieved for the re-design — but the best bit is, because it’s digital, I can always improve it! (One of the major advantages over print.)

And yes, I intend to continually improve the site by periodically adding new portfolio pieces and blog posts.

One of the new additions to my website was this blog, simply titled:

I’ve been pretty terrible at blowing my own trumpet in recent years. But I aim to change that! From time to time I will publish some of the projects I’ve done, interesting things I’ve found, or a little bit more about me. Literally, a show and tell. So, keep an eye out for blog posts via the website or social media.