We just re-did a bunch of pages on Transistor. It includes a redesign of the:

• Blog index
• Blog posts
• Custom blog post
• Changelog index
• Changelog posts

I did two behind-the-scenes videos on this redesign process here:

• Video - Part 1
• Video - Part 2

The design for conference sites is usually pretty bland and formulaic.

Really like what Jack McDade did with this one. Super fun. (And, as a child of the 80's, I really dig all the NES references)

Love that intro story. I can definitely relate.

Nope,we're using PHP + Glide to create that effect.

Glide is built into my CMS (Statamic), so we just run:

Thank you!

Thank you!

A little background: I wanted to switch my site off of WordPress, and my friend Jack offered to redesign it.

But... I wanted to keep the brutalist aesthetic. (I still get quite a bit of traffic from pages like this)

So we worked on making the site look like an old punk rock zine. (Complete with photocopied images, tweets, etc...)

I know it won't be for everyone, but I really dig it.

I switched to Statamic CMS from WordPress, and I'm hosting it on Digital Ocean (using Laravel Forge).

I can't tell you how many times I've wanted this. I use dev tools all the time to make mockups, show clients modifications, etc... This is exactly what I need.

I can completely identify with this sentiment:

I had failure after failure—every idea looked great as a sketch but completely fell apart when I began the design. And, I found that I wasn’t able to judge my work clearly. I’d fall in love with an idea, only to come back the next day and realize how terribly wrong I’d been.

There are a lot of different types of freelancers. Designers have different needs when it comes to pitching their clients.

This is true.