Today is the day! After months of hard work and anticipation, my new sites are launched! Designers, font aficionados, web geeks, and mid-century modern design lovers- I’m so excited for you to see them all.

To start, I have a brand new logo (or should I say Coat of Arms!) for my the10centdesigner.com blog.  I love it so much I’m having it screened onto my new skateboard this summer. Oh heck, I might even get my coat of arms tattooed over my foot it’s so fun and eye catching. The  design has everything 10 cent- bold technicolor wings, wonder woman stars, fabulous girly shoes, and a fierce lion for protection. The blog has been constructed from scratch and perfectly meets my expectations and my style thanks to my wunderkind design team at Vaunt Visual.

I am also stoked to show you all my brand new photography site Lori Andrews Photography . Vaunt Visual has designed something really fresh, very smart and super clean for this. I wanted to showcase my photography in a new and radical way and I think Vaunt Visual has created a photography site for me that does this masterfully.

Of course, I needed to rethink my interiors site as well Lori Andrews Interiors. I love how the two sites relate yet retain their profession specific appeal.

I asked my web designer to create something new and shake up the internets.  I’m super happy with the results.  Our coder Mike Barnlund of Spiral Design has provided some of the more technical information for you.

Take it away Mike-
Typekit
Between the countless possible operating system and browser combinations, we can only rely on a small handful of fonts being available on the visitor’s device. Typekit solves this by providing fonts that we select to users on demand (via a high-performance content delivery network), giving us access to a huge collection of fonts that work on any device.

WordPress
What started as a basic blogging engine has evolved into a full-fledged content management system. Its plugin architecture allows for easy addition of advanced, well-tested features. Being open source, the default WordPress functionality has been heavily customized for LAI/LAP/10CD.

JavaScript
Aside from using the latest jQuery library, all JavaScript on the site has been custom written to provide only the necessary functionality. Avoiding heavy “do it all” JavaScript libraries keeps the site lightweight and reduces load times.

Responsive Design
All the layouts used adapt to screens of any size, and provide the full site experience to all devices, down to low-resolution tablets and smartphones.

Cross-Browser Compatibility
The site has been extensively tested across all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 4+, and Chrome 7+, plus current versions of mobile Safari and Android Browser.

HTML5
Sites are fully based on HTML5 to maximize future compatibility, without sacrificing functionality on non-supported browsers, like Internet Explorer 7 & 8.