mindgraffiti

Wardens Farm is a new client with an existing web site – what we call “takeover sites.” Built in Front Page 5.0, it was my responsibility to reinterpret their old site into something a little more palatable. I was instructed to keep the color palette the same and “clean up” the design. Here you can see their original look:

complete with a snapshot of the scary code Front Page generates:

We had a clean version of the Wardens Farm logo on file, so I plugged it into PhotoShop and created a design file. Here is the reinterpreted design:

Although I still don’t consider myself a web designer, I do push my limitations and improve my design skills as often as possible. I focused on the typography, since my color palette and design element choices were pretty limited. As for the code, Dreamweaver does a much better job generating clean HTML (well, compared to Front Page anyway):

This was of the fastest and most enjoyable clean-up projects I have worked on in a while.

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