Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Birthing a (virtual) baby

So, I have been as busy as a bee with "birthing" a new website for a dear friend and fellow fine artist.  She is an amazing person, and I am thrilled that she wanted me to design a website to showcase her art.  She and I worked together in the corporate world MANY moons ago, briefly.  Her beautiful given name is Leonora, but her friends and family call her "Nono" and it was only appropriate that her site be titled "Art by Nono."


When I am designing a site, I become immersed in the process and barely come up for air until everything is JUST as I want it to be.  With this particular site, that meant hours of scanning artwork and getting the right images in the right spots.  She has also written a devotional book, which integrates her artwork interspersed with some of her inspirational writing, that I included on its own page.


I absolutely love the design process and the immersive nature of tweaking and coding and tweaking and coding, in order to get everything to behave just as I want it to. This requires patience with the structures that I must work within, as well as knowledge of how to tweak those structures to get the look and feel that I want.  It is always a challenge, but that is where my design juices and determination come to life.  Launching a new site is always exciting, and it is especially rewarding when the client is so thrilled with the result.

Now that I am up for air, I will be visiting in your neighborhoods!  :)

9 comments:

  1. It looks lovely! I know that you are in your element when creating...

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  2. It sounds like a wonderful project. It must have taken a lot of time, but what fun if you are doing something you love. It looks great!

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  3. It is beautiful Christi! Coding...omg! I am still trying to figure Wordpress and for me there is no coding. The dashboard is intimidating for an old gal.
    xoxo,
    Barb from chasingthenextchapter.

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  4. I know what you mean about being immersed in a project. Glad you're up for air. Your project sounds and looks lovely. I'm so pleased you have such an opportunity to do your own creative as you help others create theirs.

    Wishing you glimpses of heaven in unexpected places...
    Brenda

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  5. Love coding too. Totally understand what you're saying, and your work is beautiful. Always.

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  6. Glad that you are back with us once again. I was looking for the website but couldn't find it so tapped on the book and went from there. I really like her notecards! I have a thing for notecards. They are lovely.

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  7. It's wonderful when creativity arrives for a project. What a great website you are creating for your friend.

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  8. Christi, thanks for all your lovely comments on my blog. I'm so honoured that you continue to visit when I have not been blogging as much as I used to. I am trying to rectify that but I know you know just how difficult it can get in busy lives. How blessed your friend is that you design and organise a website for her. I have just been through your art website and see you have so many more paintings etc on since my last visit. They are amazing and such a variety too. You are one very artistic lady. May this year be a blessed year for you.

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  9. Replying to a comment of yours Christi which you probably don't even remember about our 57th wedding anniversary. No we were not babies when we married. My husband was 28 and I was 21.

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