Peter’s Current Web Designs

Kinlochleven High School Music Department (2009)

My ‘work’ site at http://www.khsmusic.info/, started in September 2009 and still likely to be undergoing considerable development. The deep red, grey and white colour scheme comes from the current school badge (just as the gold colour of the old KHS site featured on my archive page came from the old badge), and the Beethoven Opus 111 background in ‘manuscript paper’ colouring is the one I made originally for the Music Department pages of that same site. The tables of SQA (exam board) musical concepts are also colour-coded according to the colours of the exam papers, so blue for Intermediate 1, green for Int 2, pink (yes, pink!) for Higher and so on...

Perhaps there’s a bit of a theme emerging in my most recent sites (see also The Polldubh Club below) with fixed page backgrounds, major headings highlighted by page-wide coloured strips and horizontal, pipe-separated sub-menus as also used here on petestack.com. But I like things that work and all of these are currently ‘working’ for me. So I’ve also taken the step (which I might yet extend to most of my other sites) of significantly increasing the line spacing on this one, started a collection of randomly rotating photos (to brighten things up) in February 2011 and hope to see this eventually covering the full spectrum of Music Department work and activities.

For anyone who’s curious why this isn’t on a subdomain of the main school site (no longer one of my designs), of course that would be better, but my need for PHP now (+ maybe MySQL later) and independent control of my own stuff means that things are currently simpler this way.

The Polldubh Club (2009)

For The Polldubh Club, founded on 15 April 2009 ‘to promote all aspects of climbing in the Lochaber area and beyond, including (but not limited to) arranging Club Meets at a variety of venues and helping to conserve the Polldubh Crags as an accessible and attractive climbing area.’

A simple site that, like all those currently featured on this page, comes very much into the ‘work in progress’ category. The design evolved (as mine normally do) from simple CSS tweaking of some trial content, driven this time by a fixed (non-scrolling) page background featuring a photo I took of Ian Clough’s classic VS (Very Severe) climb Resurrection on the 50th Anniversary of its April 1959 first ascent, with the new Club logo added in July 2011.

Like my now-defunct Impala 28 site (see Archive page, this one features an SMF-powered forum with some public and some members-only areas.

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