Jake Przespo

It has been a long journey, but my redesign in finally live. I’ve been putting it off for weeks at a time to work on something else. The last week or so, I grind-ed out the rest of the work and tied up some loose ends. I’m really excited about this version for a number of reasons.

The final design (homepage)

My portfolio

One of the major reasons I wanted to redesign the site was the addition of my portfolio. I was contemplating the idea of just adding it into the old design, but realized there were other pages that needed to be reworked as well. Most of the work in there now are personal projects, but after my decision of freelancing part-time, I have added a couple client projects as well. Check it out.

Writing

In the past, I have neglected my blog a few times. I knew that I wanted to change that in the redesign, so I focused on making the content more important. I am hoping that by doing this, it will force me to get in the habit of writing more. I really enjoy sharing my thoughts about the web and hope to interact with as many web designers & developers as I can.

Getting some work

Another goal of the redesign was to get some freelance work. With the help of some awesome dudes, I have worked on a couple projects already. However, I am hoping the new design and all of the additions can give me the chance to get my feet a little wetter. If you looking for someone to start a project with, hit me up.

New Things

I wanted to use a redesign as an excuse to learn a few things as well. I was dying for a reason to integrate Typekit into something, and I thought this would be perfect. As of now, I am serving up Museo and Calluna designed by Jos Buivenga. I also am sporting some of the Pictos icons from Drew Wilson, the Dribbble plugin from Dave Rupert, and Pods integration with some help from Jonathan Christopher.

Hope you guys like it!