A quiet Amsterdam night…

Posted by psykik in Writings on April 8, 2008 at 11:35 pm | Comments

Anyway, I feel the sudden (not that sudden, I’ve had it for 2 weeks now) to again completely redesign this site. I’m never happy with the designs I make/use. I like the simple colours but the overflows are not clean. I need more gradients
I guess one should always have a basic idea and then make a design out of that idea. After finishing the design you probably end up in an endless loop of never ending tweaking
Well with me it’s even worse: I have a basic design, and I am pleased with it for about 1 month and then I get bored with it.
So what’s my challenge? I guess… making an “untiresome” design .

I should also point out that for this site I never made the basic design. I found a good looking theme (or a theme I found good looking at the time) and ported it to my blog engine. There is nothing wrong with doing that of course, it made me learn the template engine of EE which is still the best I’ve ever seen Just too easy…

So here I am with this urge to redesign it completely, although I’m still working on another project. Yes! while already thinking of redesigning this site, I’m currently working on a new website self made website. It will probably be a website built in Asp.NET using the latest technology tweaks (Linq, asp.net 3.5, ajax …) That way I don’t get behind on the latest web development trends and practices .
I also do not want to pay $250 for the commercial license for EE ! (That’s the other argument… )

The website will mainly be used as a portfolio of the sites I’ve made for my clients.
As I still have to begin with this website (design & code), I’ve been busy finding a name for it for the last 4 weeks!!!! YES FOUR weeks. Every time I come up with a good idea, the domain name is already taken.
This just confirms all the people out there buying up catchy domain names hoping to get big bucks out of it. (pizza.com was just sold for $2.5m so even more people will try their luck…)
It just feels there’s no good catchy domain name left to buy in this world This is of course not true but it just feels that way for the moment… (if you can read between the lines, this is an attempt to let you comment on this entry with your kick ass domain name ideas )