Introduction

This is a piece about thinking out of the box and how, sometimes, you really do need to get an outsider to look in to a system. I have learnt to take some serious input from my work colleagues and also to listen to advice written on various blogs and web articles

Opinionated

For a long time I have considered my opinion to be well-read and I have become enflamed by some very well written articles. Luckily for me, I am the type to hide such emotion until such time as I can construct a response coherently.

One of my projects, a while back, was the redesign of my website. My personal blog was in need of a major overhaul. Both the interior and the exterior needed redesigning and stream-lining.

Most of my internals were a leftover from a very early implementation of the web-site and, to be completely honest, were designed without any thought about good coding practice or room for expansion. So, for the first time in a while, I opened up our company programming policy and set about redesigning.

Re-learning by forgetting

Throughout my early learning stage within web design, I have held on to the ideal that font sizes were something to be decided by the web designer. If someone couldn't read properly any text then it would surely be because they didn't have a good enough browser. How naïve I was to think like this. A tiny sacrifice it is to make, that the visitor can view your information with ease. After a while of thinking and creating like this, you realise that it isn't really a sacrifice but a good method. What really fascinates me is how, once you begin producing designs based upon the visitors' font size, you can really free how you design layouts. Fluid styles truly become more than just fluid.

Ultimately, we all have to begin thinking outside of the limits of our own minds and allow a little flexibility. Design for your audience; if you don't know who your audience is, be flexible.