Friday, November 21, 2003

That's About It Then

It's taken a few weeks, a few late nights and I've learnt a few new techniques to get to here. A finished, new look blog. I'm very happy with it.

The old template was the umpteenth variation on the original blogger template I started with - designed by someone else. This new one is by me and from scratch. A few other firsts here for me also - minor in complicated terms but I have impressed myself.

This is the first time I have used ImageReady and made non-flash rollovers. There is also some CSS stuff I've not done before and on top of that after the initial table layouts, most of the site was finished and edited in Text Pad.

I realise that maybe the Rollover at the top is a wee bit heavy for a dial up - but its not hellish (50k) as the rest of the page, excepting images is fairly light. Maybe if people moan I will swap it for a non-rollover version.

That is the last big web job that I 'must' do for quite a while. Now I can maybe concentrate on some more creative stuff. Coupled with the fact I have ordered a new digital camera, I expect to be quite busy in the near future.

Any comments on the new look - good or bad, will be appreciated.

Posted by Dio Bach at 22:23

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