Peter’s Current Web Designs

Impala 28 Class Association (2007)

New to the web on 3 February 2007 in a post-AGM (27 January!) burst of enthusiasm and now (like most volunteer projects with little input from others?) developing more slowly, our new Impala 28 Class Association site takes its main colours of red, black and white from the class sail insignia. Some features already implemented include random photos of members’ yachts on the home page, random quotes from reviews on the ‘archive’ page and an SMF-powered forum (previously running at a subdomain of petestack.com), but much of the site is sadly still very much an empty shell.

While my preference for clean functionality over eye candy in websites means that I rarely start with graphic mockups (normally preferring just to start coding and see where that takes me), the overlapping tabs of the main menu proved the exception to my rule in demanding exactly that approach! So I drew up the whole header from the title to the bottom of the coloured bands in Xara Xtreme and then worked out how to code it...

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