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Category: Design

Joined-up Website Design Mar 26. 054

I just finished working on ‘another’ site for the wife of a cohort of mine. Mrs Tiffany Kemp runs a commercial management business called Devant. Much like her husbands website, the devant site needed a re-fresh, so that’s what we did, and this is the end result.

Devant Website

Let me know what you think.

Tagged: Code, Design

Wedding Photography Mar 17. 053

I just finished working on a site for a cohort of mine. Mr Simon Kemp is perhaps the best wedding & portrait photographer ever but his old website just didn’t cut the mustard. We did a bit of a deal and this is the result.

Hyde-end Studios Website

Let me know what you think.

Tagged: Code, Design

Re-design Step 2: Look & Feel Concepts Jan 21. 054

I’ve been playing about with some ideas for the re-design in Fireworks…

Fireworks composition

Tagged: Design, Fireworks

Re-design Step 1: Specify Requirements Jan 14. 053

So, I’m doing a live re-design. But… before I ditch my CSS and start fiddling with the page markup I want to take stock of what’s here and decide what will stay, and what will go. At present the site is split into three primary sections; ‘blog’, ‘source’ and ‘bio’, each of which contain sub sections:

  • home

  • blog (latest)
    • archive
    • feeds

  • source (overview)
    • dreamweaver extensions
    • fireworks extensions (and source FLAs)
    • flash extensions
    • store (?)

  • bio (overview)
    • curriculum vitae
    • contact

I’m keen to follow the ‘KISS’ approach for this re-design so it’s out with anything no one ever looks at and time to focus on the worthwhile bits.

Here’s what the revised structure might look like:

  • home (main blog content)
  • blog (archived by month and category)
  • source (?)
  • bio (overview)
    • curriculum vitae
    • contact

So, I’m pretty clear regarding the blog and bio sections, ‘bio’ will remain pretty much as is, ‘blog’ will be simplified to make finding what you’re after easier and quicker, but ‘source’… I have no idea… does anyone use this stuff? Let me know what you think.

Tagged: Design

Mac mini & iPod shuffle, most affordable ever Jan 12. 051

Apple announced two ‘amazing’ new products at Macworld today! They never cease to amaze, although I still reserve judgement on the nasty iMac.

First up is the Mac mini. It’s a Mac, but it’s mini. Basically it’s a miniture Mac base unit. So… if you already have a PC with USB keyboard, mouse and DVI or VGA monitor, then you’ve got everything you need to get started. It starts at just �339! Flog a few more bits on eBay and I could be on my way to my first Mac.

Macworld 05 - Mac mini, iPod shuffle

Next up is the iPod shuffle, although I reckon a Capcom Streetfighter inspired tag of ‘Super iPod mini’ woulda worked just as well, then the 1Gb model coulda been called the ‘Super iPod mini turbo edition’.

The iPod shuffle does away with all the cleverness and keeps things simple. You load your tracks, it shuffles them. Not entirely sure how that might work out but it could be kinda cool I think, and for only �69 I could well bring myself to snap one up as soon as just for the hell of it. :)

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