It was inspired by minimalist folio websites featuring very few, but bright colours, and a strong theme.

The header was one of the few constants over the course of this design. I knew I wanted to state right out of the gate what this website was about, and the header achieves that effectively.

I also knew I wanted my content in a central column layout, and that was the next thing to go in. I spent a lot of time playing around with font size and column width to get the design looking the way I wanted it.

In the initial stages of design, I wanted a twitter feed on every page of the site, but quickly decided that one page was enough, and limited it to the home page.

As for the twitter feed itself, I tried a lot of plugins before deciding on a simple search-based plugin and using a jquery script and css to turn it into a marquee.