Creative by Clark is pleased to announce the launch of a redesigned blog that elevates style and user experience { http://www.antoniovelardoblog.com }.
The back history
A couple years ago I built a blog for a client who had made a decision to use the Faculty theme and lock in a specific visual design. Now with a renewed interest in publishing more blogs and taking on a more polished, streamlined look – I was given a bit more freedom this time still with a request to change the structure and put all blogs on the front page vs an introductory landing page with overview information and widgets listing blog posts.
In addition to a cosmetic makeover and adding a masonry post grid to the home page, there was a lot of attention to responsive design. While the Faculty theme was responsive, the sidebar navigation and animation of the drawer-style page delivery coolness factor wore off quickly. As a designer/developer I can say that I was not a fan.
While there has been a lot of back-end effort, the new blog renders quickly and very responsively. I was pretty stoked to see Mobile User Experience scored at 99/100!
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[/custom_frame_center]After Mobile User Experience 99/100
While the blog author must now commit to writing more blogs, we’re confident that with massively improved design, user experience and performance there will be a big jump in Google page rank and visibility soon.