It’s been a few years since I last updated my layout. This time I decided to shoot for a simplistic clean design. The redesign project and life had kept me from blogging for a while.

Now that the redesign has been completed, be ready for new posts coming up soon.

Along with the new layout I have setup a facebook page for the site, show some love by becoming a fan here KarinaMyers.com Official Facebook Page

Happy blogging!

Ahhhh… Spring.

I don’t know about you, but I’m really happy Spring is here.  I know we’ve had spring for about a month already, but it just didn’t feel like Spring to me until this past week. We’ve had a tough winter but it’s all gone – at least it seems.

So I figured, brand new Spring calls for a brand new design for the blog. This time I wanted to make something quite different from all the designs I’ve had in the past for this blog. I think you will notice that the main change was the background which is black when in the past I’ve tried to keep the background of a light color, preferably white.

Old Times ..Good Times

First, let’s reminisce a little in the various designs Karina Myers’ Blog has had. At the beginning, I decided to have a very playful approach using different colors and the result was…

I though it was cute and I like that I had my sponsors link in the top of the page. But, a designer’s mind never stops working so guess what…I came up with a second design.

For my second layout I wanted to include my twitter account, so I added a status post in the header which ended up looking like this:

I love swirly brushes, and I was pretty happy I was able to implement it in this design.

For the design that came after that I wanted to make a pretty innovative design with some fire or neon glow somewhere in it. Here is an image of what the header layout ended up being:

Red is one of my favorite colors and I still love that KM logo I made…good times!

The new and improved layout for Karina Myers’ Blog… that’s me

For this new design I decided to give it a rest to my digital web character. I hold the design very close to my heart and I’ll probably implement it in my future design… who knows? what do you think?

Let’s start with the logo. I must say, I’m really happy with the results. This new logo has a fresh look to it and I like that I was able to implement the various colors that I like in it without making it look bad, and guess what.. I’m using neon colors which look beautiful with the black background!

I’m also using different dark tones and thin light borders that you will probably need to take a close look to the design in order to notice it.

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I decided to participate in the Best WordPress Design Award that’s being organized by WPWebHost.com. I’m really close to the deadline so I hope I can still make it.

As you can see I’m aiming for the Best Hand-Drawing Style Award.

How to participate?

Your website must be WordPress powered with an original design or a completely original modification of a free or premium theme design.

And here’s how to join:

1. Write a blog post (or announcement) about joining the Best WordPress Design Award (and mention which category you are joining) in your website.
2. Submit your URL in the comment form over at WPWebHost.com. (trackback works too)
3. Done! (are you expecting more?)

Deadline is on 22nd March 2009. (more…)