i'm a web designer

Around this time last year is when i finally decided i should buy myself a domain name and some hosting. I started off with a simple design, and didnt really follow through with it. Despite this i uploaded the site anyway.

Since I first uploaded my first website, I have swapped and changed it a lot, always iterating the design, the layout and the content to what you see around you today. No doubt there are more designs on the way, but thats not for a while as I’ve finally found a layout that I like and works for me

Below you get to see the designs that evolved over the past year, excited yet?

xandesigns version 1

My first design. Ugly beast isn’t it. Don’t think much of the logo either. To think I was really happy with it at the time.

A very dull shade of grey, and not much going on. I got alot of the inspiration for this from a flash media player i found online

xandesigns version 2

Well a definate improvement on the first design, but still not much to go by. A lack of content also made this one seem a little boring.

Much, much lighter this time around. I was pleased with it, but never got to finish as at that time I got hit with a shed load of coursework.

xandesigns version 3

This was actually my design for a while, and it only changed just after christmas 2008. I spent a lot of time on this making it look pretty. It was very functional for what i wanted, and I was pleased with it.

I managed to make a nice dark design work, woo go me. Thing is certain parts of it annoyed me and it had to be gone. Sorry design!

This site is actually live. Give the image a click!

xandesigns version 4

Now we are getting to the good stuff. I was actually annoyed to replace this site. I still am. I worked really hard on this site.

I had a full nights session going on this to get a fully functional one page website animated by jQuery. It had options to change the colour scheme too! How cool!

Unfortunately the content I have doesn’t fit the design, and there was a lot of ‘mystery meat’ navigation going on. So it had to be scrapped. Good for learning though

This site is actually live. Give the image a click!

Now we come to what you see around you. This hasn’t been live for that long, yet I believe it is one of my better sites and I am happy with it, for now.

As for the future, who knows.

xandesigns version ?

This could be a future layout. I’d certainly like to code it, when i have the time though.