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This image appealed to me today after a full day of working on the design of mitchster.com. A nice comforting box. With all the complex angles and layer, if feels like a CSS XML layout. So many similar forms with variations in form and color, yet all working together to support the valuable content.
I’m settling in on the design of mitchster.com that you see now. It’s been a long time coming — months of notes and research. Let me know what you think. I can’t believe that I’ve been running this photoblog for over 150 days now. This coming April 11th will be my six month anniversary. I’ll have to think up something special to do to celebrate, winter should be on the run — I will have survived my first winter of photoblogging. Normally I hide inside and try to ignore the really cold days, but this project kept me out there. Hopefully I will be able to show you why we all put up with winter, the summers are enjoyable, not too hot and with all the lakes and rivers, it’s very beautiful here.
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I like the look alot. 150 days? You do this like you are a veteran.
so where was this taken, Mitchster? I could guess, thinking it has a St. Paul feel to it, but I’m probably mistaken…
and I do like the new look. Tell us, what’s the significance of the little duck? Childhood friend ?
I like the new design. Clean, organized, easy to find things. All that intense green in the old format made me a little queasy. Love the printer’s type in the banner. I wonder how many people recognize what that is these days. I might do a new format for my blog for my first anniversary on March 22. However, I don’t write code so I’m limited to the tools that Blogger provides. Oh, and there’s the spare time question.
Sorry about omitting a link when I mention your blog in the text of one of my posts. Sheer laziness on my part, I guess. I shall reform my ways.
The parking garage is just south of the target center in Mpls.
The duck is left over from the last design, he came from an experiment. It’s a glow-in-the-dark duck. The old banner image was a 30 second exposure and the duck was the only source of light.
I want to use different image for the banner, but I re-shot the duck so that people would still recognize the site after the redesign. Stay tuned for the new banner!
- Mitch
I like the duck–keep it! And I like the old-fashioned lettering thing on the banner. Its all good.