A few months after doing a technical refresh on rebelcook.com to move it to the WordPress publishing system, I’m back working on a redesign with Rebel’s agency, Gibson Roscoe Advertising. I had worked with her on a few alternate layouts over several years, but this is better than anything I’d come up with on my own. My role was to adapt the mockup they gave me into a WordPress template using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The new design is built around the bright red “For Sale” sign Rebel Cook has posted on commercial properties around South Florida. A friend commented “you really have to like the color red,” and perhaps we’ll eventually tune it down. But I’m really happy with the image carousel at the top of the page that displays featured properties, which is based on the jQuery jCarousel.