ALL SANDBOX NEW

I'm excited to share details on my latest blog redesign for my favorite, fashion blogging sisters, Natalie and Erika of The Fashionably Broke. They came with many ideas on how they wanted to update their blog but left it to me to give them a cleaner and more modern design. Check out the before and after:




HOMEPAGE HIGHLIGHTS \\
1. Created a new logo that matches their vibrant personalities
2. Created a new "sticky", drop-down, navigation bar with menu items and social media buttons that highlight when you hover over them
3. Moved the search box to the navigation bar
4. Moved their Instagram feed below the navigation bar and widened it to fit the width of the screen
5. Removed several sidebar gadgets that cluttered their design
6. Changed homepage Posts to summaries and moved the Post Title & Date underneath the first image (on the post pages the Post Title appears at the top)
7. Updated the social media share icons



FOOTER CHANGES \\
1. Moved “Older Post” link from the right side to the left side
2. Created a new social media section footer with image links to different areas of their blog
3. Changed the footer \ attribution background to black to match the navigation bar



ABOUT US PAGE CHANGE \\
1. Created an image collage to highlight all the subject areas of their blog

What do you think? What do you like? What don't you like? I want to know! See the full makeover over at thefashionablybroke.com and contact me if you need help with your blog or business site.

My latest blog redesign was for the effervescent and undeniably beautiful Waverly of the lifestyle blog, Pich & Roor (a play on Rich & Poor). Over sweet treats, Wave showed me a few ideas she had and gave me the overall blog vibe she wanted. She expressed how she wanted a more mature blog style but one that still showed her playful personality. Here's the before and after of what I came up with:

I'm excited to share that I've completed the redesign of another blog (first one here)!! This time I had the pleasure of working with one of my favorite style bloggers in DC, Krystin, from Be Loud Be You.









What do you think? See the full redesign over at www.beloudbeyou.com and contact me if you need help with your blog design!

One of the main reasons I started this blog was to challenge myself to do and learn new things - one of those things being front-end web development. I've never taken any formal classes on web design but have been dabbling with HTML and CSS since I started blogging. Most of what I know is from reading and trial and error. I just love creating in general (outfits, pretty pictures, itineraries, etc.), and I have a degree in engineering so web design is a natural extension for me.

I recently helped my friends at spicycandydc.com update their blog design. We made a list of everything they wanted, and I took care of the rest.

Continue reading to see the transformation...




I also made some updates to a few of their static pages. The most visible changes are on their "About Us" page.


ABOUT US PAGE CHANGES \\
1. Updated image and content.
2. The sidebar and gadgets no longer appear on this page which gives more room for other things like...


3. Information about their new contributors when you scroll down the page.

What do you think? What do you like? What don't you like? I want to know! See the full makeover over at www.spicycandydc.com and contact me if you need help with your blog.