The Early Years

24 October 2006

At work we’ve just launched a new site for The Early Years, a lovely bunch of guys from London who’re on Beggars Banquet.

I’m particularly pleased (if I do say so myself!) how this site turned out; we got given a whole load of really nice photos from the band and we really wanted to incorporate them at the core of the site, as they really represented what the band is about. We ended up using yet more javascript wizardry to dynamically scale the background photos to fit the size of the browser window, and then took advantage of transparent pngs (with gif fallback on IE) to layer content on top.

It is, or course, another site based on a Textpattern back end. It’s got to a point now that implementing a band site in Textpattern really takes no time at all, such is Textpattern’s flexibility coupled with a few choice plugins ( upm_img being the most notable).

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24 October 2006