Web design & Front-end development Blog - by Salman Tanvir » Personal http://www.salmantanvir.com/blog the web designer's blog Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:31:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 I am my worst client http://www.salmantanvir.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/i-am-my-worst-client/ http://www.salmantanvir.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/i-am-my-worst-client/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:46:54 +0000 admin http://www.salmantanvir.com/blog/?p=9 While I was working on this theme, which by the way isn’t built from scratch its based on the default wordpress theme, I figured its hard to justify my own concept to myself. Primarily because when I ask for opinions from friends and foes, they don’t see it from my perspective. 9 out of 10 people think its hard to read even though it has a lot of breathing space and it lacks color which is a major contradiction coming from a person who claims to be a creative and it gets hard to justify.

The idea is to have a very neat and sleek layout. But to most this doesn’t seem like a web designer’s blog, another idea is to distance this blog from those who use cheap glue so that their graphical stickers should fall off or fold from one edge and inorganic plastic boards that glow in the dark.

Home page layout concept

Home page layout concept

This blog design that took about 48 hours and 2 packets of John Player’s Gold Leaf is ready for your reading pleasure. Loads of thanks to people who gave their sincere opinions but it turns out that I am my own worst client and by definition the client is always right, isn’t he?

]]> http://www.salmantanvir.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/i-am-my-worst-client/feed/ 2