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.

God Help The Girl is Stuart from Belle & Sebastian’s new project, and it’s really rather lovely. The new site features a cornucopia of interesting content – diary’s, Q&A’s with Stuart, videos and all that jazz.

It also features a bit of a novel subscription feature, where you can pay £35 and get everything that’s released for the rest of the year (including the album, several 7“s and an EP) and a load of extras. I’ve been going on about this sort of thing for quite a while now (that’s from March 2006, by the way) so it’s good to see it actually happen.

From a web-dev point of view, the site has a few tricks up its sleeve; for a start it uses CSS 3 column-count liberally to easily wrap text into two columns, which works in all major browsers other then IE which gets one column instead (which works nicely anyway). column-count is a great tool in your arsenal you can use right now, although watch that you don’t use it on long bits of text as if you have to scroll to read both columns of text it’s a right pain.

In a similar fashion it also uses -webkit-transitions coupled with some -webkit-translations as well for little touches of animation. I couldn’t justify spending the time on implementing them in javascript, but one line of CSS that works for 20% of visitors to the site (which is the Safari % share for godhelpthegirl.com) seems worthwhile.

Textpattern based, as ever…