Tarting Up
My website has undergone a bit of a face lift over the weekend. What started as a little job turned into a semi-major overhaul.
I'm like that sometimes, getting one thing to work and look good makes something else look wrong in comparison and prompts me to do just one more thing before I got to bed. Which last night resulted with me finally crawling into bed at 5.00 am.
So anyway, now I've got a new home page on my site (which you might not have seen if you came straight to this article). The old one was looking a bit tired, and it was difficult to know what to put there. It tended to repeat information that was available elsewhere on the site, so I've streamlined the whole thing right down and made it a simple hub for the rest of the content. There's also something very special about the graphic on that page, but I'm saving that for it's own blog entry, cos I think it's just so cool!
I've also re-done the navigation bar to make it slightly smaller and inject a bit more colour into each page. I realised that the "buttons" were supposed to look like white-framed photos, but you don't get photos that long and thin. So they now sport a "torn edge" look that I'm quite pleased with. It fits with the "knowingly haphazard" design that this site has had from day one.
The only annoyance is that they do a really nice deblur/reblur effect in Internet Explorer using cross-fades, but I can't find a good way of making it work in other browsers. So if you're viewing this in anything other than IE6 (I don't blame you) you're probably just getting the abrupt-switch version of the navigation bar. It's worth loading in IE6 just to see it do it's thing! :)
I wanted to stop these pages looking too much like "every other blog", so the Flickr badge has gone to be replaced with a little stack of pictures taken from my Flickr photostream.
Every page should also now fit within a 800 x 600 browser window, but I may have missed some. The blog was just a bit too wide before, which was bugging me.
Wow, what a dry posting. Sorry about that! It's just that I've been plugging away at this for a while now, and while it might not be the most technically proficient web-site in the world, I'm pleased with it!
I'm like that sometimes, getting one thing to work and look good makes something else look wrong in comparison and prompts me to do just one more thing before I got to bed. Which last night resulted with me finally crawling into bed at 5.00 am.
So anyway, now I've got a new home page on my site (which you might not have seen if you came straight to this article). The old one was looking a bit tired, and it was difficult to know what to put there. It tended to repeat information that was available elsewhere on the site, so I've streamlined the whole thing right down and made it a simple hub for the rest of the content. There's also something very special about the graphic on that page, but I'm saving that for it's own blog entry, cos I think it's just so cool!
I've also re-done the navigation bar to make it slightly smaller and inject a bit more colour into each page. I realised that the "buttons" were supposed to look like white-framed photos, but you don't get photos that long and thin. So they now sport a "torn edge" look that I'm quite pleased with. It fits with the "knowingly haphazard" design that this site has had from day one.
The only annoyance is that they do a really nice deblur/reblur effect in Internet Explorer using cross-fades, but I can't find a good way of making it work in other browsers. So if you're viewing this in anything other than IE6 (I don't blame you) you're probably just getting the abrupt-switch version of the navigation bar. It's worth loading in IE6 just to see it do it's thing! :)
I wanted to stop these pages looking too much like "every other blog", so the Flickr badge has gone to be replaced with a little stack of pictures taken from my Flickr photostream.
Every page should also now fit within a 800 x 600 browser window, but I may have missed some. The blog was just a bit too wide before, which was bugging me.
Wow, what a dry posting. Sorry about that! It's just that I've been plugging away at this for a while now, and while it might not be the most technically proficient web-site in the world, I'm pleased with it!
Don't apologise honey. I do it all the time :-D
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