How and why I built this site

Its for me, not you

One thought I had when I started my portfolio was that every version of www.paulwallas.com to date, were designed to impress others.

90% of web sites are always designed for someone else. If you work as an in-house designer for a design agency, the websites you produce are for the agencies clients. If you are a freelance designer, the websites you produce are for your clients. Even your own portfolio is for others as you use it to showcase the talent you possess. It’s something you produce to tell the world ‘look its HTML5′, or ‘look at me, I can do box shadows in CSS’. It is quite rare we produce a website solely for ourselves and put everyone else second.

So that was my first requirement. Forget visuals, forget the latest CSS3 craze and design something that I will get use from. After all, I’m the one paying for it.

Each time I find a useful article I either bookmark it or use Evernote to store the link. Both of these methods are fine, however the chances of me re-visiting the article to read are slim. My intention is to use my own site to store articles I find that are useful to me or my work. I will re-write these and post them on my site. I will never claim credit for these articles. This way, over time, I will build up a selection of useful articles I can easily call on and locate should I ever need them.