My new blog has been up for over 24 hours now, and the verdict is in!
Visitors to this site overwhelmingly approve of the look and feel of the new JoelComm.com.
In fact, many people are asking me questions as they want to know how I put this new site together.
Well, I\’ve got nothing to hide and I will tell all…
First of all, you need to know that my blog is built upon the Movable Type platform. I\’ve been using MT since Summer 2003 and am very pleased with its publishing power.
I had no plans on converting the blog to a different format, so I knew that whatever we came up with it had to be plugged into MT.
So, with that in mind, I contacted two of the most talented, young designers I have had the pleasure to know… Robert Secades and Daniel Arzuaga of Graphic Mavericks.
I showed them my old design and asked them to create something fresh… new… professional, yet stylish with a Web 2.0 feel.
And they delivered!
As Robert and Daniel designed the new look, they built it around a WordPress Premium News Theme which they had purchased.
You\’ll notice that my site is simply a plug and play design based on the referenced theme.
However, the theme is made for WordPress, and I am using Movable Type.
So my in-house developer was able to take the HTML designed for WordPress and customize it to work with my blog platform. He did a great job, didn\’t he?
So there you have it.
There\’s no real secret sauce.
The secret to a great design is to hire out your graphics, find a template that works for you and combine the two.
If you are looking for top-notch design work, I highly recommend Robert and Daniel from Graphic Mavericks. Be sure to tell them I sent you!