It would seem the hardest client to design for is yourself.

This is about 2 weeks worth of concept, content, and design planning.

The concept was the easy part, I knew what kind of look and feel I wanted the new layout to have. I wanted to contrast the chaos and grit of grunge design clean and sleek vectors and typography.

The content was a bit harder. I wanted to remove sections from my current site, but I wasn't sure what all I wanted to include. The content changed all the way up to last night when I decided to nix the "about" section and instead put in a blog.

The most challenging thing about the design was getting the colors I wanted. I attempted a variation of the red / blue / yellow color combination, but it never seemed to work quite right. In the end, I decided to cut the blue and just use different values of tan / yellow / brown with red acting as the accent color.

I'll post the other pages as I design them. Adding a blog section has given me a lot to think about in terms of how the blog should look and function.

Most of the florals are brushes created by coolwing [ [link] ].

Fonts are Century Gothic (using Helvetica / Arial as a fallback in case it's not installed) and Georgia, with the Are You Design logo being Walkway Bold.