Over at Beautiful Pixels they’ve highlighted a remarkable CSS creation by freelance web developer John Galantini. He’s made a version of the iconic London Tube map using nothing but CSS, HTML and jQuery.
Check it out, it’s practically perfect in every way and a great example of what can be done in web code these days.
I finally have my new website up and running. It’s pretty much the same as the old one but better, in my opinion, for having finally ditched that hateful chunk of buggy code they call Flash. This means I’ve also had to give up on SlideshowPro and while I’ll miss the very lovely SlideshowPro Director content management system, I will in absolutely no way whatsoever miss working with Flash.
So, goodbye headaches, hello mobile devices! Yes, the new site runs on pretty much any device you care to mention, at last!
It’s running on WordPress using a theme from GraphPaperPress called Sidewinder. This allows me to display my photos in a side-scrolling stream that users have complete control over. No more waiting for the picture you wanted to see to come round again on the slideshow.
It also allows me to use hassle-free menus to display links to individual collections of images, incorporate new features easily with plugins, and all the other lovely stuff that comes with WordPress. Ah, but doesn’t everyone complain that it’s not very stable under pressure? Don’t worry – in the extremely unlikely event that Mr John ‘Daring Fireball’ Gruber links to my site or something, I’ve got W3 Total Cache activated.
So have a look around and let me know if you manage to break it or if anything doesn’t work how it should. I am currently working on a Photoshelter page as well, for easier distribution of images to clients and in case anyone would like to buy prints or license images. Nobody ever does, but what the hell, building the site keeps me quiet of a weekend!
