David Emery Online

I don't really do web design so much any more - I firmly have a marketing hat on these days (and it's a pretty snazzy hat, let me tell you...).

Below is an archive of previous sites I've worked on.

I’m really quite happy with the way this one has turned out – it’s a real privilege being able to work on a band of BSPs stature. I’m much more used to working on people right at the start of things, which comes with its own benefits – seeing Jack Peñate rise from a virtual unknown a year ago to having a top 10 album in October has been a lot of fun (and very rewarding) – but it’s nice to be able to have such involvement with someone that a lot of people hold so dear.

As ever it’s all based on Textpattern, which is still just about serving all the needs nicely (although it could do with an admin interface overhaul). It’s nice that by using Textpattern we can get features like having commenting open on tour dates without having to do any work; my mindset is currently that the full on “social network within your own site” thing is far too much work for the reward you get (which is very little), but encouraging a community and adding simple levels of interaction can be very useful.

I’m also pretty happy the way the look and CSS have come together. It’s a fluid width, grid based site and I think it may be the first time I’ve done 3 equal width fluid columns. I particularly like the way it handles different content spanning different column widths – with the news at the top needing 2 columns, but the photos spanning all of them, for example. At one point all the baselines lined up as well, but that seems to have got slightly broken in the run up to launching it – ah well.

Incidentally, for anyone that has been following the comments on this old post about fluid width sites – which was very kindly linked to by Jeremy which sparked a bit of debate – this is exactly the kind of thing I’m aiming for when I design a site; designs that truly adapt to almost any reasonable window width without too many compromises.

Hopefully I’ve achieved that this time round.