This is the website launch for web/graphic designer, writer, photographer and musician Adron Buske (hey, that’s me!). This site will serve as a portfolio of my creative efforts across very media, and a collection of my thoughts on those endeavors and whatever random stuff tickles my blog-fancy.
A little exposition: I launched my first personalized website sometime back around 2003. That original site was focused on my music projects. I’d recently “gone solo” as a singer/songwriter/acoustic guitar slinging performer, playing coffee shops, bars, charity events and the like around the St. Louis area. After awhile, music slid from my first priority project to somewhere around #5, so I pulled down that site and began work on a new one devoted to a broader mix of my activities.
And… it all sat dormant for a looong time. The demands of my career and side projects hindered my web project. I would work on the site in bursts of downtime, often getting whole designs completed and coded, only to be sidetracked at length before content-population. I’d return to the site months later, find myself dissatisfied with the previous effort, and start all over again. As a professional website designer and maintainer, I’d try to challenge myself and add to my skill set with every project. Eager to exercise my new tricks, I’d attack my site design from a fresh perspective, just to get bogged down again and renew the cycle.
The biggest stumbling block in the creation of my site was the need to serve several very different pursuits. I struggled to come up with a look and feel that suited a designer, a musician, a writer, a comic book creator, a photographer. The desire to be “everything to everyone” drove me a little crazy. I needed something I could update quickly and easily – last thing I needed was a high maintenance time-suck. It was time for a new approach.
So here it is, late in 2009. I’ve decided to launch this fairly simple, WordPress powered website. I first tried WordPress with a client site for Emmis that had to be launched only 30 hours after the design was finally approved. (Not even business hours, total real-time hours!) Impressed at the ease of use and expandability in the WordPress system, I decided that perhaps it was time to let a blogging database take some of the heavy lifting off my shoulders. I put together this basic design and skinned it over Michael Hutagalung’s attractive and very functional Arthemia theme.
I have a plan for the creation of more content-specific page designs for my various projects, but rather than let my digital brand remain stagnant while they are under development, this version of AdronBuske.com will hold the line for the foreseeable future. I’ll be making tweaks and changes and adjustments as we go along, so please pardon the growing pains.
I appreciate you dropping by, and having enough interest to spend a little time exploring my creative pursuits. Please leave your comments, questions and suggestions in the comments – I’d love to hear from you.
- Adron