I want my new website to look good. Personally, I have poor aesthetic sense, but I do appreciate a well-designed product. So I need to get a solid design for my site. This is the third milestone in The Ostrich website project roadmap. This post is a project progress report, summarizing the completion of the milestone.

If you’re reading this on my site, you can see the resulting design. I think it looks good. The components of the design you see here are:

1. Branding & WordPress design by Gootte.
2. WordPress theme based on BuzzBlog Theme. The theme was customized to my branding as part of the Gootte design project.
3. Components of the site design used throughout external platforms. Social network pages and profiles, newsletter template, etc.

Read on for some more details on the design process.

I mention my old itamaro.com WordPress blog here and there. Since launching The Ostrich site, my old site is no longer available. I migrated the content, and redirected the domain.

If you’re curious about how it looked like back then, here are a couple of screenshots. Or maybe you’ll have some luck with the wayback machine.