SchickHappens.net 2.0
I’m sure some you are wondering why it has taken me so long to upload my pictures from my New England trip. I apologize for the delay, but as I hinted at earlier, I had something big planned for SchickHappens.net that I wanted to unveil at the same time. So if you haven’t been to my website lately, please stop by and check out my redesign!
To most people, it won’t look like a drastic change. I changed the color scheme on the front page, updated my headshot, switched fonts on the banner graphic and added a new side navigation. But the majority of the changes took place behind the scenes and unless you are in the web design business, you won’t appreciate how much effort it took.
For my fellow web designers/nerds: The biggest change I wanted to accomplish was to move from table-based to CSS-based layout. When I first built my site back in 2006, I didn’t have a good program to build a website from scratch, so I settled for FrontPage and used one of the pre-loaded templates (I know, I know, may the web gods strike me down!). Despite picking that template, I was never a fan, as it was the best of a lousy bunch. But it was such a pain to swap templates, I decided to stick with it.
In addition, I coded my pages to be validated against the XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctype. With the exception of the Bond pages (I want sound to play on page load; compliance be damned!), they should all be compliant, which was a pain, as most of my code didn’t have end tags or alt descriptions for pictures.
I also set up subdomains for both Assignment: America and MI6: Home of James Bond, added includes for my footers, moved all the pages inside their own directories (for shorter URLs) and rearchitected my file structure. All this had to be done on my 85 or so pages, so I’ve been busy the last few months.
There are still a few tasks I want to complete over the next few months, such as convert all my transparent images from GIFs to PNGs and add image maps to my A:A maps, but those can wait.
So please send me an e-mail if you have feedback or especially if you find a broken link. I think the design looks a lot cleaner and slightly more professional, and I hope you think so too. Now I really don’t have any more excuses for allowing a year to lapse between updates...
To most people, it won’t look like a drastic change. I changed the color scheme on the front page, updated my headshot, switched fonts on the banner graphic and added a new side navigation. But the majority of the changes took place behind the scenes and unless you are in the web design business, you won’t appreciate how much effort it took.
For my fellow web designers/nerds: The biggest change I wanted to accomplish was to move from table-based to CSS-based layout. When I first built my site back in 2006, I didn’t have a good program to build a website from scratch, so I settled for FrontPage and used one of the pre-loaded templates (I know, I know, may the web gods strike me down!). Despite picking that template, I was never a fan, as it was the best of a lousy bunch. But it was such a pain to swap templates, I decided to stick with it.
In addition, I coded my pages to be validated against the XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctype. With the exception of the Bond pages (I want sound to play on page load; compliance be damned!), they should all be compliant, which was a pain, as most of my code didn’t have end tags or alt descriptions for pictures.
I also set up subdomains for both Assignment: America and MI6: Home of James Bond, added includes for my footers, moved all the pages inside their own directories (for shorter URLs) and rearchitected my file structure. All this had to be done on my 85 or so pages, so I’ve been busy the last few months.
There are still a few tasks I want to complete over the next few months, such as convert all my transparent images from GIFs to PNGs and add image maps to my A:A maps, but those can wait.
So please send me an e-mail if you have feedback or especially if you find a broken link. I think the design looks a lot cleaner and slightly more professional, and I hope you think so too. Now I really don’t have any more excuses for allowing a year to lapse between updates...
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