Remodeling my place.

I've built two materials / color palettes, with crossover of certain elements that I already have, or wish to use regardless of scheme. Haven't decided which palette to go with, yet.

Version 1, the original, based on my preference for black/grey.

Version 2, based on more tropical / floral, to match future wall art.

Below is the wall art -- in canvas print and framed print -- that I'm planning on hanging, and perhaps rotating. I take a lot of photos, so I can't think of a better way to use them than to rotate them on my wall, seasonally speaking. And yes, I have many winter and fall color photos, too, so I'm good to go on the concept.

My thinking here is that Version 1 feels more like a gallery, while Version 2 is, obviously, warmer and feels more flexible.

Comments, anyone?

Officially official: Portfolio site now live.

Well, I've finally completed it, though the journey was an odd twist.

I was originally going to build my portfolio from scratch using Adobe Muse, and in fact some three years ago or so, I had a template front page figured out.  But then Muse left beta and became a paid app, so that left me hanging in the wind.

I then started working with a jQuery template, but it really was just an image template which therefore required hard coding for the overall layout of the site.

At that point I was going to build it in Google Web Designer, but then I realized that I didn't have the time to build it from scratch.

So I decided I might grab one of those free templates, and I found a really good one that was minimalist and all.  But then after fudging around with it, I realized that it would still take quite a lot of time, first to read through the documentation, then adjusting all of the parameters by hand.

So finally, I decided to go to Wix.  Of course, I started the project, and then let it sit for a couple of months.  But last week I finally got off my bum and worked at it, and in four days I've finally completed it.

My portfolio website.

Now granted, it's currently hosted at Wix and has ads for Wix, because I'm not going to pay $5 / month at this point to host with my domain name that I own.  Eventually that'll change, I'm sure, but for now, it's good enough.

The obligatory screen shot of my portfolio.