Michelle’s portfolio site
For the first time I’ve compiled a WordPress theme completely from scratch. I did this to build a completely unique portfolio website for my beautiful girlfriend, Michelle. She recently graduated from the Newhouse School and is seeking a job in television reporting.
The homepage features her image alongside a YouTube video of her choice floating inside a television. The video is automatically pulled from any video-bearing post tagged “featured.”
Textured design elements
So I was doing some study and practice of web design elements in photoshop, and wanted to share and save a pair of the samples I came up with. My goal was to start to incorporate textures into my elements.
The first experiment is a simulation of a stack of photos that I plan to eventually incorporate with CSS to superimpose a WordPress featured photo into – as part of a bigger web design. The background of other photo-frames gives some spatial depth to the image, and also serve to confuse the eye just enough to make the whole thing appear off-angle when it is, in fact, straight.
The other image is a still-incomplete vision of a website that might incorporate that photo stack into a larger website.
New project gone LIVE
PandavisionProductions.com brand new home page - built by Phil Tenser
For a number of weeks I’ve been working with my friend Erick on a custom website to showcase the videos he’s been making. Some are simple projects from his youth, most are complex video productions from school and work.
This completely custom site is built on the WordPress platform, meaning everything is completely customizable by the end user – including which thumbnails appear in the homepage collage, and where. The design is based on proofs built by Erick in PowerPoint.
Tools used to build the site were borrowed from some other public-domain WordPress templates, (why re-invent the wheel?) but I am proud to say that the homepage collage system is completely of my own creation. (more…)
