From My Desk

Today I'd like to talk a bit more about visual identity and what I'm working on with the site. One of the biggest things that's driven me nuts lately about where I'm going with the direction on the site is visuals, everything to me was starting to look the same and I needed a way to bring some interest and change so that while the overall color theme and styling is the same, there is some individuality of the different sections of the site. An experience tailored to each thing.

Today the one thing that I'd like to discuss is design, and consistency of it. When I started out on the rebuild I had a visual target to achieve, that of the old website, but I also wanted to refine and change things that didn't make me happy as well. But the problem is, I made everything look alike! No matter where you look its the same and thats becuase I'm not much of a designer and thats something I'm hoping to address before too long, whether it be solicit advice online, hire someone, or just keep doing my things and pray. The real issue though? With the migration to styled-components and the ability to break up the CSS into components i quickly found myself rewriting CSS over and over for different thngs that were visually the same and that lead to inconsistencies within. I've begun the process of combining down similar components and migrating the CSS into more specific components rather than overall in different places. Sidebars for example.