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A new look, and a new domain

It’s been almost a year since my last post. In that time I’ve moved house, changed jobs and got mar­ried, it’s been a bit of a whirl­wind. And the web has moved fast as well, CSS and can­vas exper­i­ments have been pop­ping up all over the place (see deli​cious​.com/​f​o​f​r​/css3 for my favourites).

Inevitably com­ing back to “FofR Online” after such a long period I wasn’t happy with the site, and I’ve com­mit­ted the web faux pas of chang­ing the design and the domain name at the same time. I’ve dropped the rather mean­ing­less “FofR Online” pseu­do­nym in favour of using my name as a brand. All pages now redi­rect to paulrhayes​.com.

This site is my first exper­i­ment with Type­Kit and web fonts. I’ve cho­sen to use Museo for head­ers and Swing dancer for my name. I can’t say I’m entirely happy, but if I waited for that I’d never release anything.

Let’s get the ball rolling

Good evening, day, or morn­ing, depend­ing on the time you read this. Wel­come to my online port­fo­lio, my sand­box for design, my play­ground for web devel­op­ment, my plat­form for indus­try opin­ions and my busi­ness, “FofR Online”. What does FofR stand for? It’s Czech for “move it”, it’s a com­mon typo of for and it sits in that ball­park of quirky online brand­ing — rem­i­nis­cent of Flickr or Twit­ter, espe­cially if pro­nounced ‘fof­fer’.
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