Client: Ladybug Cakes & Catering
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Client: myHimachal
Notes: Avnish Katoch from myHimachal blog had approached me last week, seeking a new design using Revolution News theme by Brian Gardner as base. After a couple of iterations, Avnish settled on this final design. I tried not to stray too much from the existing layout of the Revolution theme, and that made it quiet easy to update Revolution News Theme to the new look, and the site is now live.

There is still some on going work being done to make the rest of the site adhere to the new design, but overall a quick and fun redesign.

The original Slider theme was released back in March, and one of the frequent requests has been an option to have post contents displayed by default, like a regular blog. So here it is, Slider Red, a variant of the Slider theme, but one which has post contents showing at all levels.

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Back in July, Jacob from Mutiny.in contacted me, asking if I would be interested in redesigning Mutiny.in. Being a fan of the site, and in a generous mood, I decided to take on the project. The initial plan was to do a complete overhaul, including re-branding the site, and launching it on August 15th, coinciding with India’s 60th Independence day. But, due to the time constraint, decision was made to keep the old identity, and move on with a new site design.

The point man for the project at Mutiny was Woke, Mutiny’s editorial head, and his creative input was a tremendous help in shaping the final design. I tried to follow Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain’s process for tracking the stages of design; and you can have a look at it here: Mutiny.in Project

As for the final site, it seems a little off from the final mark up provided, but their technical team is working on resolving some of the issues. Overall, they got the site up on August 15th, Jacob and team are happy with the new design, and favorable but some mixed reactions from their readers.

After releasing the India 60 wallpaper, which was created for India’s 60th Independence day, I started putting together a web page based on the wallpaper. The intention here was to make it easier to get to the original photographs used in the wallpaper, and this effort resulted in a page matching the wallpaper, with each image linking to the original photograph.

But, while I was creating the wallpaper page, I started to wonder what a web site based on the design of the wallpaper would be like. So, I started putting together a new site, and to keep things simple I decided to make it a site with links related to Indian news, videos, images, and podcasts. This effort culminated in India60.com.

Now, I am probably breaking quiet a few norms with this design, and some of you w ho stick to the preachings of the design gods, might cringe at it. One of the obvious ones being horizontal scroll. There is a little used mouse feature which is perfect for this site and to get around the horizontal scroll issue. If you keep the scroll wheel pressed as you move the mouse around in the browser window, you can move the page in any direction, kind of like the hand tool in Photoshop.

India 60 is still an experiment in progress, and in a future post I will try and share some of the technical aspects of the site. Check it out, and do share your thoughts.