Beginning in November of last year (2011) I began to experiment with responsive design on a new blog site – the ultimate goal of which was to move my blog from timothycomeau.com/blog (where it had been for years) to it’s own dedicated url: timothycomeau.info.

Over the course of the winter (and while I was studying Web Design at Sheridan) I hacked away at it using it as a playground to try new ideas and further my understanding of WordPress, and especially Responsive Design.

Unfortunately, by the time I came to graduate, I was caught with a mangled site which was only half-developed for what I’d then intended: not only have it as a blog, but also an archive of my previous web content. The archive part wasn’t done, and unresolved.

At about the same time, I began to look into the sites on Themeforest.net, and in order to learn more about how they were built and functioned, bought one, which I put on the site in May. I was asking myself questions: how does this theme work and, does my content stand up to its design?

However, I soon grew frustrated with the implementation. That theme was designed for portfolios mostly, and I wanted the site to function as a blog primarily. It was evident that it should be scrapped.

About a month ago, I hacked together a very simple theme for my localhost WordPress Journal. As a Journal, the end that needed to be served was reading and so design wise it needed to emphasize and encourage that.

Essentially, I ported that design over into this one. I wanted something as simple & clean as words on a page. With the basic structure in place, I think I’ve reached a final version.