I've finally finished redesigning my two sites. I have my daily photoblog. I need to load up some content for that but I've been busy finishing my other site. Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed for my blog Its got the usual fancy things like a search engine, CSS switcher and things. There is one bug to work out. I can either manually edit all 450 entries or find a quick way to. I still haven't found the quick way yet. Its not 100% W3C valid yet or even tested for accessability. I'm sure it will fail but I've not had time to finalise those issues yet.
My second site is my professional portfolio. I knocked up a quick site a few months back but I recently decided to redo it with bigger images. I scrapped the 800x600 limitation of the previous site as I wanted nice big images. I doubt any prospective client would be using 800x600 anyway. Most of the sites I looked at for research ignore it too. You'll notice it is using Flash. Now I know what you're going to say. "Ew Flash!" Before you do I would like to point out that I get around most of the major issues with it. You can directly link to any image on my site. The slideshow will play smoothly or you can quickly browse the thumbnails at the bottom and skip to any image. The content also degrades nicely and warns people if they don't have Flash installed. File sizes are low. It preloads each image and shows you that too. Its a brilliant script and well worth the $20 it cost from SlideShowPro.net. The advantage of Flash is that my content is quickly protected from any random person trying to hotlink. If they do get passed that the content is still watermarked. Tested on IE6, FF, Opera and Safari. I haven't yet tested it on IE7 but I'm assuming it will be ok. Both built using XHTML + CSS.
My second site is my professional portfolio. I knocked up a quick site a few months back but I recently decided to redo it with bigger images. I scrapped the 800x600 limitation of the previous site as I wanted nice big images. I doubt any prospective client would be using 800x600 anyway. Most of the sites I looked at for research ignore it too. You'll notice it is using Flash. Now I know what you're going to say. "Ew Flash!" Before you do I would like to point out that I get around most of the major issues with it. You can directly link to any image on my site. The slideshow will play smoothly or you can quickly browse the thumbnails at the bottom and skip to any image. The content also degrades nicely and warns people if they don't have Flash installed. File sizes are low. It preloads each image and shows you that too. Its a brilliant script and well worth the $20 it cost from SlideShowPro.net. The advantage of Flash is that my content is quickly protected from any random person trying to hotlink. If they do get passed that the content is still watermarked. Tested on IE6, FF, Opera and Safari. I haven't yet tested it on IE7 but I'm assuming it will be ok. Both built using XHTML + CSS.