Working lately on my new website designs. It’s been fun – the colors, fonts, images … everything is making me happy (so it makes sense I chose the name I did) and it should, right? The more I work on it, the more real it’s becoming. My goal is to have these sites go live by the end of the month as well as have business cards and some postcards ordered (and a few other things for my face painting venture like a vinyl banner – can’t wait for that).
I started with a quick hand-drawn sketch of BeeHappyDesigns.com which isn’t really even clean enough to post here but it worked for my brainstorming purposes. Made a few minor changes from that to this digitized version as I researched the functionality of what I want to do. I am using Illustrator for these mock-ups and I really like the clean, bright look that software and vector images offer. The plan is to make these sites responsive so they can be viewed on multiple different devices – something I am not as experienced with in web coding but I will learn. I’m keeping the same basic structure for BeeHappyFaces.com but changing up the colors a bit and I want to have a grid of rotating pictures (in place of a carousel) with different images of my work and also text slides of the different things I can paint or venues I have worked. I’m debating keeping to just one blog between the two sites for simplicity’s sake. My first plans were to develop these two businesses separately but the more I do, the more I am realizing they can be more of a c0-brand of each other. They are both creative art services so, why not? And, I want all my design clients to know I face paint and all my face paint clients to know I design… I can get cross business! Now to pull these into Dreamweaver to fine tune…
I thought this would also make an excellent Facebook Cover so I rearranged a little and created this panoramic. I’m glad Facebook integrated this feature into the user profiles. It allows for a little more self expression (or promotion) space and I do really enjoy panoramic designs.
