A New Name, New Ideas

Why did I decide to change my web designing work name?

Well, I am no longer doing any consulting and the web and graphic design side of my self-employment grew to become the major focus of my work. So I decided to do a complete redesign of the site and give it its own "presence" on the web.

Inspirations

As I reflected on my design style I realized that I always seem to start with some sort of inspiration, often a color scheme that speaks to me about who the client is or what they want to communicate on their web site. For instance the new Inspirations by Design site is based on a picture of foil wrapping paper that appealed to me and the butterfly reflects a new beginning for my work.

The domain WebnSpire.com was more difficult to create as I wanted it to be unique, but catchy. It came about after a good deal of brainstorming and checking out available domain names. I think it works quite well and I hope you do too. I'd be happy to hear what you think about the new name and web site.

Cheers, Faye

Inspired by....

As with many web designers, my design work has evolved through the years and I now design using only CSS and a text editor (Notetab) for clean html and fast loading pages. I use a bit of Java when necessary, but am inpired by design gurus such as Stu Nicholls (find his columns at webreference.com) and Eric Meyer who are pushing the edge of CSS design. You can see Eric's work at css/edge. The popup images on the samples page are based on his design ideas as are the transparancy elements on the FJBCAN site.