New design, New blog

// March 13th, 2007 // general

My old site was a pain to update within the restraints of its little boxes. Decided to join the blogging world with this site. Not sure who, if anyone, will be reading but in the very least its the easiest way to update the front page of a web site.

I never intended to actually use this yellow design, I was just messing around one night. But it’ll do for now and should be easier to just re-skin it.

I was trying to get this site/design finished before uploading but I’ve got a lot on at the moment, so it’s a work in progress, broken links all over the place and I haven’t checked it properly in other browsers yet. Still have to do a footer etc etc. Web design and music pages are fairly complete though.

I originally registered www.johnbraine.com just for somewhere decent to put my web design portfolio while looking for a job but I’ve decided to keep and put up all my bits and pieces.

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2 Responses to “New design, New blog”

Gary Mc Ginty says:

March 26, 2007 at 6:17 pm

Hi John,

Is your new site from a blogger template or how does it work – we have a flash site at the mo –
http://www.bigbadwolf.ie – its a pain to update – any info would be great

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John Braine says:

March 28, 2007 at 11:05 am

Hi Gary – Yay my first comment :) Sorry only saw it now. I meant to actually change this post to include the following:

This design was the result of going through a tutorial in Dan Cederholm’s excellent “Bullet proof web design” but using my own graphics. Decided to use it gt As it happens, his version is available as a template on blogger. The top menu and other bits and pieces is my own.

Flash can be a pain to update alright, unless you use xml to feed in the live date. You illustration portfolio (very nice work) for example could be done with simple viewer or there’s a slide show fla here you could use for your home page.

Then you just need to add your pictures to the xml file and its much easier to update.

If I were you though I’d also use html/css for any of your pages that are more text based. I highly reccommend Dan Cderholm’s two books to help with this.

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