When I first created this portfolio site I spent a lot of time thinking about how to put the focus on the images, minimise the navigation and strip away anything irrelevant, such as image titles or descriptions. These sorts of things, I thought, would prevent me from keeping the site updated. I didn't think I would want to spend time thinking of image titles or writing descriptions about them. I have enough difficulty coming up with titles, let alone detailed descriptions.

As a result of this I created a streamlined design, which was focused around a simple list of high-res images which filled the screen and could be scrolled through either horizontally or vertically depending on screen resolution and aspect ratio.

After living with this design for 6 months or more I realised that the long list of images meant that none actually stood out, instead they just got lost in amongst the list, and that I would be much more likely to keep the site updated if instead of just uploading an image and then forgetting about it, I spent some time on each to explain the image, the location and how it was created.

So I went back to the drawing board and created a new design with thumbnail grids and each image on it's own detail page, standing alone to give maximum impact. This also gave me a whole page to play with to add in a title and some background on the image itself. After working on the design for a day or two it became apparent that this was a much better way to structure the site, and so I built the templates and updated the site.

I hope you all like the new design!