Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I finally finished redesigning my own web design site Sehdi.com. I have been working for a new WordPress theme for my web design site for the month of October but couldn’t get satisfied. I waited a little bit until I have no more complaints about my own web design, simple, fast to download and easy to navigate.

Actually, it took me 10 days only not the whole month to do the revision as I didn’t do it continuously. Well, 10 days is also quite long just to do a WordPress theme but I always would like my theme to be neat and nice according to my taste, if not perfect. I worked on it, only if I have time. I make sure that I will be able to concentrate on it.

I couldn’t anymore keep track how many times did I redesign Sehdi.com when I was not using WordPress yet. But this is the first time, that I redesigned it ever since I use WordPress as CMS for this site. When I converted the whole site in December 2006 to use WordPress, not only the blog, I just adapted the old design of this site.

The first WordPress theme was a two-column theme with 750px fixed width to make it still easier for those who are also still using 800×600 screen resolution.

The second WordPress theme is a fluid three-column theme. It still looks good at 800×600 screen resolution but the width will not expand if the user has bigger than 1024×768 screen resolution. The second sidebar adjusts if the user opted for a screen resolution to be even smaller than the old standard 800×600 screen resolution. I configured it that way as the second sidebar contains ads only aside from the random web design images which can be accessed at the first sidebar.

Regarding colors, I like the colors of the old WordPress theme, so I didn’t really change the colors.

I redesigned the website of Lux International AG. It was at least 10 weeks ago when the new web design of Lux International AG went online. It took me 6 weeks to finish everything and before we considered that it was ready for publishing. The design was simple, easy to navigate, and fast to download.

It was a complete overhaul as we changed the web design and layout, revised the content, revised and added new text, changed most of the pictures and images, rearranged the menus and its submenus, implemented a new navigation system, among others.

I coded the site using ASP as the server didn’t support ASP.NET and PHP when I tested it. I actually created the site using PHP first as it was supposed to be possible to upgrade the hosting using PHP, only to find out later that the web host was no longer supporting PHP. I created a simple CMS using ASP, then decided to use ASP.NET instead when I found out that ASP.NET can be used, and when I tested it, there was a permission problem regarding the database. By the way, the web host has windows server. As there is no control panel to work with, and I have no access to the server, I asked the web host to set the correct permission but it was not possible on their part. They already gave me an explanation but I still wonder. I will not elaborate as well.

Actually, I thought of other possible options and alternatives when I started redesigning the site but at the moment we’ll just have to update the site the way we used to, and not using CMS.