A Decrease In Post Count

As many of you might have noticed I have not been posting frequently, nor as frequently as I would like to. I honestly have not been able to find anything that has been post worthy, but then I haven’t also spent much time scouring the web for interesting things either.

What have I been working on?

Well I’ve been working on some mock up websites for myself and for a local club. I am to have a meeting with the local club’s GM and go over what he wants for the new site. The old site is once flash file at around 1.5Mb. It’s not ugly or anything, just not what the GM wants for his club (I personally hate flash sites). I asked him what he likes about it and he said absolutely nothing but paid for it anyway. When talking to other people about the site (www.tommysclub.com) the first thing they tell me is that they really dislike the music that loads once the page is done loading. Buck Cherry’s Crazy Bitch. Now what I have mocked up is a non-flash, pure CSS web site that hopefully is easier to navigate and looks a little better: www.tyleringram.com/tommys

Now I mentioned I am working on a site for myself. If I could dedicate a bit more time to it, the site will be for what I’ve always wanted to get fully into: Web Design & Development. Now the site (www.tyleringram.com/New) is also a mockup as I get used to splicing things in Photoshop and gluing it back together using CSS only. The layout and design is simple and that is what I am aiming for. My previous attempt was all dark, a bit too dark after looking at it and I thought I would try and brighten it up a bit. Though you’re feedback is always welcome! For those who are curious, the filler text is Latin; mainly it is Lorem Ipsum and has been used for a long time as dummy text when it comes to publishing. When you don’t have content but need to see what content would look like in a layout it is a great thing to use.

At work I have been also working on a new layout and design for our corporate website. I have been playing around with Suckerfish Dropdown menus which are nearly pure CSS except when it comes to functioning with Internet Explorer. The thing that I love about it is that it only takes roughly 7 lines of JavaScript code to make it work with IE. In all the other browsers though it is pure CSS and works wonderfully. When with IE play with nicely with all the other browsers? I mean IE7 does a better job than IE6 but the World Wide Web Consortium is the standards and all the other browsers follow it (more than IE anyway). I will be looking at doing a closer look on how you can create your own CSS dropdown menus utilizing the Suckerfish Theory at a later time.