It’s been a while since I looked over my own website with a critic’s eye to see how it stacks up. Overall not bad, but missing some elements that I’ve been pounding over everyone else’s head for a couple of years.
Plus, I just finished reading “Don’t Make Me Think”, a handbook of web design and usability by Steve Krug. If you’re a web designer and want to refresh yourself and pick up a few tips, I highly recommend it.
Most of the content was very familiar to me and I was proud that I followed the same tenets as other leading designers. But I spent a lot of time on a little section that talked about taglines.
Taglines are supposed to define what your site is all about without visitors having to…[wait for it]…think.
I had no tagline and a lot of content to wade through to find the answer, so I immediately re-designed the website logo you see today. I hope it accomplished my goal.
While I was at it, I made a concerted effort to standardize this blog to the rest of the site and I also re-designed the portfolio so visitors could browse through each portfolio detail without having to return to the portfolio index pages. ยป Go to the portfolio index.
Happy Halloween 2007!
We’re pleased to present the newly updated website for Maria T. LoRusso, P.C.