How AndySmiff.co.uk was created...

Pixmac000037371761AndySmiff.co.uk was created with clear goals in mind. These were to re-brand myself as a trusted freelancer, simplify the sites usability and integrate social media more heavily into the site.

 

To achieve these goals I researched a lot of other web site designs, marketing models, social media trends and brand identities. Once I had all the ingredients together that I liked I fired up Photoshop and starting experimenting.

To bring AndySmiff.co.uk to life I turned to my favourite Open Source CMS... Joomla! What I needed at that stage was a template framework and some awesome extensions. this blog post will tell you exactly what I have used and how it all came together.

This blog post will tell you exactly what I have used and how it all came together.

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The New, Improved Andy Smiff

Andy Smiff   goes liveAfter a full 2 months of re-branding and re-development, andysmiff.co.uk is now live once more and I am available once again to take on new clients web & IT projects! So I thought i'd take this first blog entry as an opportunity to tell you all about my new site...

AndySmiff.co.uk has been built to run on the Joomla! content management system. The difference with andysmiff.co.uk is that it is also built upon the Gantry template framework developed by the guys at Rocket Theme.

I have put in a lot of time & effort over the past 6 months experimenting with different frameworks, templates and extensions to come up with a more procedured and efficient way for me to tackle web design projects. AndySmiff.co.uk is the end product of that work and the beginning of a new line of more effective web design creations still to come...

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