One of the friendships I’ve made since moving to London is with an über-talented unsigned artist called Andy Kyte – he’s slogging it away in Camden, slowly making a name for himself and turning heads in the music industry. I’m totally in awe of all the hard work he’s been putting into it, and when he asked if I could help him out with some design it wasn’t a difficult decision.
One of my responsibilities was his online presence. I worked on his myspace and twitter pages and set up a facebook page for him. I also went to a couple gigs to get some photos we could use across the internet.
Website
Twitter, facebook and myspace were great for a while, but in preparation for releasing his first single he needed a complete overhaul of his website which had sat dormant for a few years.
Seeing as I hadn’t worked with HTML since my teen years (that would be about 4 years ago, for reference) and CSS was a foreign language, I thought – ‘Why not?’ – as you do.
I designed something in Illustrator, started setting it up in Dreamweaver, skipped out on a whole lot of features I realised would take more coding skills than I could master in the short amount of time, and had it up in about two weeks. Absolute mad times, but fun all the same.
Website Header
Website Content
Even though it’s not a perfect and polished website, it served its purpose and, as my first foray into web design, it wasn’t too bad. I learned a lot along the way, for sure! You can view it in all its glory here.
