Devious Design

I’m in the process of starting a small Web design company. It’s called NightBird Studios, and we’ll be lauching our Web site in early 2010. It’s been a long process, and I probably should not have attempted to work on it while school is still in session, mainly because designing Web sites, programming both front- and back-end applications and making business plans is a heck of a lot more fun (and seems more meaningful) than doing schoolwork. So now I have three big projects, three papers and two videos to start and finish in the next two weeks. Oops.

Anyway, designing the front-end of the NightBird site has been really fun. It’s gone through three redesigns, and the one we finally picked looks like this:

NightBird Studios: Coming January 2010

It has a cool fixed-position header with a gradient fade below, so when the user scrolls through the page, all the content fades to black. It’s a really simple, subtle effect, but I think it’s classy. Ha. Now we’re working on creating a space for our clients to easily ask us questions, look up FAQs and download different applications for their own sites. It’s coming along nicely, and should be functioning in time for our January deadline.

I know I usually have some sort of design advice in these posts, but I don’t really have anything to add to this one ­– except that you should dive into projects when you don’t already have six classes worth of things to do.

Live and learn!