Do you have any idea how long I’ve wanted to overhaul my OWN photography blogsite? I’ve been so inspired by the client projects I’ve had, that I’ve been itching to play with my own site to see how far I can go with my own ideas. I had to start with my logo of course. It’s been a very, much needed process of finding out who I am and how I can translate that into my logo. I’m sure you all know what I’m talking about. Well, since I also have a history in the architecture field (and still do it from time to time), I did want to incorporate it in there somehow, and also the fact that I consider myself a designer-of-all-trades, so to speak.

Of course I had to go ahead and flash animate the logo as well, (you know I just had to). My colors changed as well, to a palette more vibrant than before. The layout of the blogsite is hopefully unique and easier to navigate than before. The “fake out” splash page actually has the blog entries below the initial flash content and includes a “read the blog” button to easily take you there in case you didn’t notice the blog section. I cleaned up the navigation menu items and put the archive links in an enhanced footer, making it SO much cleaner and nicer in my opinion.

So voila! Here’s the finished product. http://designfocusstudio.com
Hopefully you are as inspired by it as I have been by your blogs. I guess time will tell if my PHOTOGRAPHY clients like it too.

I’ve taken a little time in this off-season to work on my own photography site, transforming and combining my blog with my business site. If you’d like to take a second to check it out, go to http://designfocusstudio.com. Basically I replaced the splash page to my flash site and made it a blog page instead. Nifty, eh?

If you’re interested in a blogsite, please e-mail me at theresa@blogsforphotogs.com. I have no pricing structure for blogsites at the moment, so I have been quoting a price depending on what it is you’d like included in it. For example, my blogsite links back to my flash site where my galleries are located, but an alternative would be to create the galleries within the WordPress blog itself. This can be done a couple different ways depending on how you want to manage and interface your galleries. Just send me a detailed description of what you’d like for your blogsite and I can come up with a custom price.

Second bit of news is that I will be out of the office February 13-18th. We’ll be in the mountains playing in the snow and hopefully not spraining another ankle.

Oh, before I go. If you haven’t visited Barb Uil’s (aka Jinky) blog lately (but seriously who hasn’t?), check out the changes that we made to it.  After she had previously “broke” the first blog I designed for her, she had reverted back to her old blog.  Happily, she came back to me with an almost-total redesign.  Now she’s filled her new blog with gorgeous archived images that are comment-able (yay!)