Friday, July 11, 2008

My new design for my photography website

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Just finishing the CSS for my new website homepage design. I hope it’ll be up very soon. I’m adding quite a bit of functionality, less design to focus more on the photos. As my portfolio grows, so I expect Renderz.com V4 to grow. I have deliberately made it slightly larger than the standard 1024×768 monitor resolution; I’m hoping those with that resolution will forgive me, or buy a bigger monitor

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Keith Ballard - 16 September, 2008 - 2:22 pm

Hi Terry,

The new website design looks very good, a lot clearer and more spacious than the previous version. And I agree with your decision to up the page size. 1024×768 can’t really cut it for conveying all the content that webpages are capable of displaying these days.

Personally, I run at 1280×1024 on a 17″ iiyama Vision Master Pro (got it out the back door from McAfee, Ha Ha!)- it’s a SLIGHT strain when reading small text (I should use a 19″ really), but the monitor quality is good enough to cope with most things.

The increased page size helps display your photos in a much better way.

There’s just one slight thing I’ve noticed about the new design, however. While I’ve been filling in my name and email, and typing this comment, I’m not seeing the normal text cursor (blinking vertical bar). It’s a bit disorientating not knowing where your next piece of typing will appear, especially if you type fast and sometimes lose track of where you are (like I do). And it makes it virtually impossible to cursor back over the text to make changes, as you can’t see where you are. Hopefully, with DreamWeaver it should be a simple change to the object properties to turn the cursor back on.

See you soon.

Keith.