Phew! Finally finished up the thumbnails… I’ll be heading up to Boston on Tuesday, so I’m gonna take a break for now and finish up with the links page in Boston. This way, I can have the website ready for launch on January 1st!
Just spent yesterday and today working on the individual pages. All of them were pretty straight forward with the exception of the photo page. I wanted to put a lot of pics up, so I decided to divide them into categories. Unfortunately, the design scheme worked best with 4 categories, and I was only able to come up with 3 good ones, which explains why I ended up with the cheesy ‘science’ category as the fourth. I also spent some time deciding between an all-blue motif or a colorful combo of red, yellow, green, and blue to delineate the four categories. For now, I think I’ll stick with the blue theme. I’ll also need to spend a lot more time tomorrow generating a subpage and thumbnail for each individual photo.
Project Xephalon.Net commences on this Christmas Day here at my home in NYC… After checking out Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash as well as MS Word HTML editor, I decided to make this website as simple as possible and using good old notepad.exe to edit the code directly. Both Word and Flash slip in tons of extraneous codes that boggled my feeble little mind. I figured I’d be too busy to have the whole site rely on flash animations (though they are extrememly cool…). I came up with the concept design and color scheme this morning, and spent the afternoon working on the graphics for the buttons. I’m working on the javascript for the combination mouse-over/display-bar-loader (sorry I couldn’t come up with a more concise description). Hopefully will get to work on the other pages later tonight…