About six or eight weeks ago Matt H came to looking for some help with a website design project. Matt is a fab coder, but self admits he all thumbs with design and CSS, so when he asked I was happy to help out a guy who's doing some seriously cool stuff. Matt is a huge fan of the Blues, and has always wanted to see a nice blues information and merch site. Thus was born Bluescentric.
I did the basic design of the site, built the bulk of the CSS and images, and did a bunch of stuff with forms and the like. I then handed it over to Matt who's gone through and added his own touches here and there, proving he's not as clumsy in Photoshop as he thinks. It's more or less an information site, with some merch, and some listings of Blues bands ( past, present, and future ). I'm looking forward to seeing how this one grows and develops.
There were some fun challenges on the site: The wood and paper sidebars were a tricky thing to do. They needed to look neat, and they needed to expand to fit what ever future content was going there. My favourite part of the entire design is the Matt's Taphouse & Tunes logo, I want that on a T-Shirt.
Samples for everyone to poke at, comments and critique always welcome. You can find them over on the Design page as well.
Marcus, you did a phenomenal job. Much of the content is done and hopefully we'll be ready for people to see it in the next couple of days. It looks plain great; I couldn't have done it without you.