Simply Recipes: Eye Meat and Potatoes
It's such a strange thing to redesign a website that you use all the time.
So when Elise approached me about redesigning her world-famous recipe site, I was elated. It's not every day that you get to make something you have a vested interest in better. And besides, she gave me a recipe for some slammin' buffalo wings. It's the least I could do.
I'll spare you the boring details--if you want them you can always check out my portfolio. But I will say that what I enjoyed the most about this project was the subtlety of it all. I was reminded of British Lit. class where we had to write an English sonnet, and it had to be 14 lines and the rhyme scheme was A B A B C D C D E F E F G G and they made us write it in iambic pentameter. All those forms forced us to seek ways to express ourselves within those constraints, and often the result was rather unexpected and pleasant.
Simply Recipes was that kind of a project for me. Pleasant, unexpected and simple.
For some reason, I've got Killian's old voice mail in my head: "'Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free, tis a gift to leave a message for your friend, Jeremy..."
Pay me no mind. There's good food afoot.
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4 October 20062. Mary:
Hi Jesse, I have known you from Simply Recipes. I liked what you did with the website. I liked the layout and all others. I think. :) Great work.
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1 October 20061. Elise Bauer:
Jesse,
Working with you is a complete pleasure. And I LOVE the work you do. Note to any and all reading this, Jesse has my unequivocal endorsement. Hire him, while he's still available.
I especially love the suggestions that came from your wife, who regularly reads the site as well. I, my mom and dad, and probably most of my readers over forty love the automatic text enlarger. What a great tool for those of us who don't see as well anymore. The site is elegant, clean, bright, cheerful, and consistent enough with the original design as to not confuse any of my readers. Muchas gracias, Jesse!