New Design Look

In refining my site I first considered the visual appeal of the overall design and then researched colour trends in web design and logos for inspiration to confirm my desire for a simpler, cleaner website style. I changed the bright colour of the background to a textured neutral grey scale to highlight accents of magenta and orange. I switched the theme to a magazine style so that a snapshot of recent posts gave a glimpse of the content and coloured images immediately on opening the site. In choosing my design the main consideration was to highlight the written content and for it to have a clean, clear unadorned layout with ease of navigation yet remained colourful to reflect the content.

Tickled Pink now appears as a bright colourful site with a larger pink title, header bar and contrasting description typography with an added logo image. There is a contrasting pink date ribbon and post title in the same font as the header bar on a clean white background.  The large pink icons were added to the bottom of each page in line with current trends for larger size social media buttons.

Updates were made to the link list, Blogroll, reading list, popular posts, and other widgets.  My avatar was moved to the bottom of each post as a signoff and is also at the top of the hidden widget sidebar and in two relevant posts on my personal writing.

My choice of platform and theme restricted some key aspects of my site due to the header, widget and footer areas being disabled from alteration with CSS and html. I took this into consideration in my choice and decided that the 'look' I was after outweighed the restrictions and I have successfully adapted the site to cover all aspects I wished to feature. Lastly, I changed the Tickled Pink title so my logo is closer to the typography and I changed the description to # Colour Design. Feel free to email me or follow me on twitter or Pinterest. Until my next post Cheers Diyu

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(With the exception of the Avatar Image)

© The Avatar image is copyright to Ramneek Narang All Rights Reserved 2013

Many thanks to Ramneek Narang and  Grant Williams Stevens for the images on this post.