One third nerd, two thirds creative

I designed the new homepage for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, which was recently selected as a Wordpess Showcase site.  It was a joy to focus simply on the design, and hand off the html/css and the wordpress integration to more skilled hands on our campus web team.

Significant changes from our current homepage, of course, are an increase in width (going from 800 to 960) and some key changes in the way we release news items and featured content.  Essentially though, this project is simply a redesign, a kind of “extreme makeover” that didn’t really alter much besides look/feel.

I’m my own worst critic, and I wonder how long this “look” will feel new and fresh.  My goal is to design things that stand the test of time and don’t appear dated when certain design trends are no long  in vouge.  We’ll see.