Break one rule
My favorite rule. I include it even though I’ve never seen it included by anyone else who is making up the rules in question:
“After due consideration of the rules, feel free to break one.”
This started as a thing back when another woman (who would become a lifelong friend) and I started our daughters’ Girl Scout troop. We had only a few hard and fast rules. We kept the list of rules short. They were only second graders when we started. But these remained the troop rules all the way through high school.
If there’s one girl missing, there’d better be two missing. (aka ‘Always have a buddy.’)
No complaining—unless by complaining you’ll actually fix something.
Don’t have any fun.
You can break any one rule. You pick.
The rule I broke in the design of this site?
Color.
This is the mood board for my own site. The classic colors are meant to evoke feelings of confidence, elegance, and tranquility.
I used the maximum number of colors I typically use throughout my pages, and I thought I was done with color.
Until I got to the last page I worked on: this blog.
I had an idea to have a completely different feel on the blog than the rest of the site. Almost a standalone site. The rest of the site sells my design business. But this blog is meant to be a place to gather articles to inform and encourage. Not so much a salesy place.
My blog page is still clean and simple. The black, white, and gray used in the articles allow the words to speak, rather than the design. But the header font and logo on the landing page are in exciting Sangria red against a true white background. It’s different enough that know you’ve definitely landed somewhere new.
Red represents many emotions—leadership, willpower, energy, courage. The traits I imagine you personify.
That blog landing page? Yep. A good place to break a rule.
Find more information on the process on my GET STARTED page.
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