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My ‘work’ site at http://www.khsmusic.info/, just started in September 2009 and 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. And 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.
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.
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.
Like the Impala 28 site below, this one features an SMF-powered forum with some public and some members-only areas.
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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