I get confused with this sometimes. The comparison to an mp3 vs the song really helped me understand when to use font and when to use typeface.
“font is what you use, and typeface is what you see.”
New Design, New Domain
Once again, I redesigned my site. However, not only did I redesign it, I also moved it to my new domain name. My old domain, JoeyValenti.com now redirects to my shiny new site, JoeValenti.net. The reason for the domain change is due to the fact that I’m now trying to go by Joe and not Joey. I’m doing this for business reasons… Joey sounds like a little boy. Whenever I would tell people that my name was Joey, many people would ask my why I “still went by Joey”. So I finally caved in and am all in with the name Joe.
The site redesign is fairly simple. I wanted to move to an even for minimal design than the previous design. I’m also back using Helvetica Neue for most of the body text. On my old site, one thing I always hated was the footer. So with this design I got rid of the footer altogether. One thing I did like about the footer however, was that I pulled in my latest pictures from Instagram. I’m a big fan of Instagram so I really like the idea of integrating it into my site somehow. So I decided to make a whole page that pulls in my latest 20 pictures from the service.
The new design is in no way finished. It has a long way to go before I will be satisfied. The next big thing I need to do it make it responsive. The site has some fixed position elements and iOS really hates that. I also need to do a lot of work on my portfolio page. Thanks for reading.
