a generous designer’s blog

Last weekend was a big step for me, but not so big in the development: I’ve launched the splash site for the “I Shot Your Design” web design showcase site.

It’s my personal collection of (partly, or totally) beautiful websites. It has over 1000 screenshots in 1280 pixel wide png. It started as an offline, speedy, inspirational collection for myself.

Then why did I decided to go online beside all the other same CSS galleries? First of all to send “look-a-like” and educational samples to my clients. Not for all of them of course, not all of them can understand the purpose of these screenshots.

I have also some fine features in my mind that can help searching for patterns in the gallery, like colour variations, layouts, styles, ratings, etc.

If you’re interested, you can sign up here for a notification about the launch: I Shot Your Design

My new, version 2* portfolio site is coming soon. I have no scheduled deadline, but the time is running out, and I really need one.

The design is 60% complete, which means it’s style and minor layout concepts won’t change. But the hardest part, the logo is 90% ready. According to my time, I think I won’t be integrate as part of the whole agenerousdesigner.com Wordpress thing. Although it wouldn’t add much extra time, but I’m not sure yet to about how to communicate my site and my freelance web design services. Currently I’m seeking a part-time job for a steady financial base in these crisis, and meanwhile I can continue freelancing as I always did before.

And now for a proof of the new portfolio, here’s a sketch paper of my logo. I’ve just drawn a few iterations on paper ’cause it’s so geometrical that with Photoshop it’s a lot faster.

Thes are the few sketches, the final is a kinda combination of these

* version 1 is offline for a while now, and was on another domain anyway

PS: My MacBook is in the service, so I’m condemned to work on a MacBook Pro. Now considering not to give it back

I finally caught up with myself and finished uploading my web design inspiration source to Flickr.

I always watching a few CSS gallery website’s RSS and a year ago I decided to take screenshots myself of the pages I like to browse them offline.

One year elapsed and the collection ended up with more than 700 screenshots of different kind, beautiful and interesting sites. I started to think about a cool community (I Shot Your Design) site to share it (with great new functions), but I’m not really a web developer, so the first (half) step was to upload to Flickr. On Flickr I can tag them or organize them, and later I can also access them and build a website on it with the help of the Flickr API.

Every weekend I will update with a few new screenshots, feel free to browse my collection of more than 870 screenshots of beautiful and interesting websites.