I always loved taking screenshots of the websites I made ever since I discovered the power of the Print Screen button. I used to change layouts every couple of months at most and would beam with pride when I look at what I made.
I lost screenshots of my old sites when my computer was destroyed in a fire at our house in 2008, though. The only ones I have left are screenshots from archive.org of whatever sites they were able to crawl but with broken images.
Anyway, last month, I decided to finally start working on this site when I figured maybe it would help to be less anonymous for work and networking purposes.
This is what this site looked like before I decided to change things up.
The WordPress theme is Björk by Anders Noren. I made it pink because cute and also, too many sites are white now. I know nothing about UX and UI so maybe this is not the “correct” way to do things. It’s a cool and straightforward theme, and I’m sure I could have turned it into something like what I have here now, but I figured I’d just start over with a new theme.
Aside from the look, I also decided to do away with the stuffy-sounding writing. I think I was influenced and intimidated by what colleagues and acquaintances wrote about themselves on their LinkedIns and websites that it made me go, “Hmm, I too must highlight my expertise in such a manner.”
Anyway, good luck to the current layout and may it last at least six months.
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