New Design

I hope people enjoy this design, I had fun coming up with it. There are so many good ideas out there that it’s hard to settle on just one. I think I’ll do some extra work and come up with an alternate design based on another one that I really enjoy.

This one was based on the Deco design by Marc Trudel, one of many at the CSS Zen Garden. The one that really looks like fun is the Golden Age Comics one. Although the design is borrowed from Marc Trudel, I significantly modified his css to obtain the effects I wanted. He used background images everywhere, while I used pure css to define colors, borders, etc. If I add any images, it will be a header one that tries to solidify the site. Right now, I think it’s pretty, but lacks a focus.

I also really enjoyed coming up with the open/close icons and code. I never really did find anything that met my needs out there in the world of javascript, so I rolled my own system. I have a menu object constructor that has a method for toggling the menu block on and off, one for displaying it on initialization, and a cookie check to remember what you had opened/closed so it would restore the menus to that state when you come back. At least I think it’s cool, and that’s what really counts.

Another coolio thing is that I have a menu block for upcoming photo galleries. I’m using the Global Listings get shorty download free

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MT plugin to list the categories from a separate photo blog. Right now, there’s only one picture of Peter in there from his first birthday. I have a bunch more to put up and the design of that page needs some work too.

Now that my site is in somewhat decent shape (doesn’t validate against anything though … bummer), I can start returning my emails that I’ve neglected for so long.