If content is king, then content layout must be the royal family. Which bits of information are important and how do they relate together? As the site already has lots of content, it is now time to decide how much of this info to show at once, and how best to navigate between it. …
Day 002 : Colour Scheme & Layout
So I was up late last night deciding two super inportant things : layout and colour. For layout, I am employing a fractal like golden grid, based around the fibonacci spiral. The grid starts with 1 section but is recursive in the way subsequent sections are divided. This means perfect spacing between elements regardless of where on the page they are hung, or how large they are in relation to other elements. Each grid can be rotated 90 degrees and shrunk to fit any section whilst still respecting the baseline and all global vertical guides.
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Day 001 : Sketching ideas
So today I start the live redesign of this site 
As promised, I am going to keep all my processes documented in this blog. The basic premise for the new site in my head is a strongly character based style with part animated, part static, all fun content! Starting out with a fresh sketch book and a head of ideas, I have already made some decisions way before starting anything about certain design restrictions that I am self imposing.
Firstly, I am designing for 960px screen width – that is 960 pixels maximum width – with a permanently visible section of 800px. …
