Back in the H.T.M.L.
Sorry for the extended absence, it won’t happen again, etc.
BUT! I do have something to show for it: my latest project, Lisa DeJohn dot com, is live as of yesterday, so go check it out.
For as simple a site as this one is, it sure gave me a few sleepless nights (L reports that on more than one occasion I woke up in a sweat screaming about three pixel text jogs). It was worth it, though, as supposedly Lisa’s site looks exactly the same in every modern browser. (The same can not be said of Feaverish, which is given a bit of a roughing up by Internet Explorer for Windows and beaten unrecognizable by Explorer for Mac.)
It’s all XHTML Strict (served as text/html) and valid CSS, of course, even the SlideShowPro-powered Flash on the homepage (thanks Bobby van der Sluis!).
I’ll be plugging WordPress into the text pages in the next couple of days, so Lisa will be able to easily update the site on her own. In that same vein, I opted to make each piece of art its own web page. This way, Lisa only has to change a few lines of text and an image link to rearrange things, and adding a new page is a simple copy-and-paste job. Simplicity was the name of the game here (look at the source code; it’s just a couple of divs and a list, and those divs are only there to keep IE in line), and hopefully Lisa will find it easy enough to update.
Okay, enough technical talk. Go have a look, buy some art, and wait by your computer for me to update again (soon! I promise).
Nice work, man. I like the menu… very cool.
Comment by Jared — October 12, 2005 @ 6:30 pm
Very nice work. I might have a job for you…
Comment by Sloop — October 13, 2005 @ 11:51 am
I like it. This was your screen shot from cameron molls thing months ago, which caught my interest then. months ago.
Although the design from my screengrab on that was relegated completely, so I’m not one to talk.
Comment by Pierce — October 13, 2005 @ 2:52 pm
Yeah, it was a long time coming. Lisa asked me to build the site, and then while I was coming up with designs (around the time of the Screengrab Confab) Lisa decided to move to Boston. All her art (which we still needed pictures of), her computer, everything we needed to put the site together was packed up and held in storage for like two months.
It’s probably not the best way to get a site out quickly.
Comment by Feaverish — October 13, 2005 @ 3:42 pm
Great job, xhtml strict…craziness. Thanks for the link to getting slideshow to validate, I have been looking for that. Keep dry down there.
Comment by Tyler — November 9, 2005 @ 8:31 am
Thanks, Tyler. Your new site is really just super lovely. Who did the illustration?
And I’m sure you’ve seen that the valid-Flash–embedding script (UFO) is up to version 2.0 now. It’s really the simplest thing in the world to plug into your site.
Comment by Feaverish — November 9, 2005 @ 11:49 am