Dear readers and visitors, welcome to my newly realigned website. Back when I first set out to create matthewforr.com my goal was to create a site that was professionally presentable and would convey the message that I’m available to do freelance web development on a limited basis.

Since then I’ve had a chance to learn even more about designing for the web and this fall I came across an article that talked about realigning websites instead of redesigning websites. I knew I had been unhappy with how this site looked but didn’t want to start from scratch so with that in mind I took a hard look at what I had and decided to go with what was working and discard the rest.

For starters, I had been happy with the calm blue hues and the dark background but wanted to add some grunge textures to the theme and find a ‘highlight’ color to work against the blues and grays. Furthermore, I wanted to find a way to balance elements on the page and make everything snap in together.

After some work and dropping a few elements I was able to find what I was looking for and would like to think I’ve finished for now. In the future I plan on adding a portfolio but for now I feel it’s unnecessary. If you are interested in work I’ve done please contact me and I’ll be able to provide examples of work I’ve done.

If you have any feedback I would appreciate it, please send me an email (matthew.forr at gmail.com) or leave a comment below.