{"id":25,"date":"2009-02-20T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlbandgeek.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2009-02-20T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T06:00:53","slug":"source-of-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Source of Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stumbled upon the website of Paul Burgess<\/a> while looking for inspiration for a project I’m working on. He’s a web designer from England who did Miss Aniela’s<\/a> web site, among many others. I have\u00a0 become an instant fan of his work. His sites are visually pleasing (dare I say arresting), yet they are elegant, functional, and free of pointless window dressing. Unlike so much of the stuff you see on Smashing Magazine<\/a> and places like that.<\/p>\n

Most of his sites seem to be WordPress based, and he talks about making it easy for clients to update or add their own content, which is exactly how I imagine doing it — once I learn how. So much I need to learn both technically and artistically to be able to work in that way. But it is exciting to find a model or source of inspiration to keep me on track in my dreams of web design excellence.<\/p>\n

Makes me think I ought to start studying WordPress right away and perhaps table the Javascript book I’ve been reading. I do totally want to learn Javascript, but it may not be quite as much on the critical path to where I’m going. I can probably just grab some free code if I need any Javascript enhancements, at least for the time being. But I really feel that learning WordPress, and designing with WordPress would open up a lot of possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In which I exude about the web design skills of Paul Burgess. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,8],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspiration","tag-web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlbandgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}