With the new year’s upon us and resolutions being made, I have one big goal of launching my pet project website that I’ve been kicking around in my head for a few months. The first order of business to get the site going is to define my process for designing and developing it. I’ve gone over my design process for making this WordPress theme, but now I want define my process for building a site from scratch.

I’ve spend the last few weeks reading through several posts/e-books that attempt to define a proper website design process or expound on a certain step in the process. I believe that I’ve come up with a good process that can work well for individuals or for small groups building websites. I’ve also included a list of resources used to help me define my process in case you’d like to delve into the subject a bit more.

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I love posts that follow the author’s design process for things like logos, illustrations and website designs. I decided to do one describing my process for building my current WordPress theme called Monsta. This post will give an overview of each step I took in the process, with pictures, while trying not to go too in depth on any one section. Some larger topics, such as the character illustration process or some of my custom WordPress stuff, will eventually get their own posts. Here's the design to development process of the Monsta WordPress Theme:

• Brainstorm
• Sketching
• Wireframe/Design
• HTML
• Character Design
• WordPress

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It’s been a year since I started to get more into the design aspect of computers but I’d like to share some things that frustrate me as I make this push. Finish Reading »

Here are a few of the sites that I feel have helped the most with getting me to start a career in Web Design.

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