Past Designs
Published Sunday 31st of May 2009
I work as a web developer for a living. By web developer I mean I take a PSD from a designer and I turn it into HTML, CSS and JS. In other words, I never really design for money.
In my spare time, however, and for my own projects, I always like to do the design myself. There's a really nice feeling of satisfaction when you draw something that you actually like.
It doesn't happen often, and most of the time someone else has probably done it before you but it still feels really nice when you look at something you've created yourself and you feel happy with it.
I've created numerous designs particularly for my old site exscale.se. Most of them are rubbish. I mean total rubbish, but here's three that I was actually kind of pleased with after I finished them.
Dark
Designed back in 2006 this is probably my most popular style on exscale (although I don't have any real stats of that, but based on what people have told me at least).
I was pretty happy with how the navigation worked out and I've wanted to use that in more recent designs as well but never really could get it to fit as well as on Dark.
Green Twigs
Here's one that I designed sometime in May 2005 but didn't get around to actually writing the CSS until October.
The main reason was the lack of multiple backgrounds-support across browsers. When Safari was released for Windows (I didn't have access to Mac at the time) I decided to write it up.
I was mostly pleased with the intro-text here. The heading-styling is actually used on the old aFramework-style as well.
aFramework Install
Not actually a site, but the installation wizard for aFramework is another one I think turned out pretty decent.
Darker
And finally we have the latest of the bunch. The one you're pretty likely looking at right now.
I've always wanted to do a design with white text on a dark background so I decided to get to it for the release of AndreasLagerkvist.com.
I like how the headings turned out as well as the blue fade.
Let me know what you like or don't like. I always want to learn more.
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