I’ve just finished the design and coding work for the Blue Ribbon Design site, through which I’ll be handling all web & design work from now on. An official launch will be coming in the next few weeks.

The design went through a large number of phases as the character of the site developed. At first it was too colloquial, too colourful, then it became too corporate and too monochrome, but eventually after umpteenth revisions, it settled upon (what I hope is an appealing) mid-ground between understated professionalism and a little aesthetic flare.

Technically speaking: I was considering building the site on a WordPress backend (as I have for this, 10th version of Riversend) which certainly makes things easier to update, but in the end just opted for a straight up PHP/MySQL backend. Also, working with the JQuery javascript again for all the client-side navigational functionality has been a real joy, web-technologies are just getting better and better lately, and with modern browsers starting to take standards seriously the HTML/CSS component is also becoming increasingly enjoyable to work with.