ara pehlivanian

As you may have noticed, the site looks a little different. My focus was primarily the layout and structure of the pages rather than the design—though one could argue that they go hand in hand, I am nonetheless taking a phased approach.
The main thing that I wanted to accomplish was to do away with the [...]

As you may have noticed, I had a little bit of a design crisis a few days ago. As a result I’ve decided to go ahead and work on the XHTML and CSS layout of the site first. I have a general ideal of where I’d like to take the markup and layout so I [...]

Well, as you may have noticed the site’s header is different and it isn’t anything like what I was planning. It isn’t permanent (notice the “BETA”?)
I guess I just got tired of the ugly blue background with the giant bold text over it and decided to whip something together really quickly to give the site [...]

Okay, so I’ve been doing a little crying. I’ve come to the realisation that though I may be able to imagine wonderful designs in my head, I have yet to master the skills necessary to bring them to life. I did have a mini-breakthrough tonight however. Simple always seems to work well for me. On [...]

Situation
I’ve just moved over to a new blogging package and I desperately need to work on a unique design.
Problem
I can’t take my time doing it because it looks bad, but I don’t have all that much free time to do it in.
Solution
Live redesign!
That’s right. Rather than leave this wonderful out-of-the-box template as is for [...]