Mark Bult Design: San Francisco, CA, Established 1988

Web design and development for small and large business, e-commerce, b2b, b2c, SAAS, and community websites. User experience design and usability testing.


Tuesday, October 04, 2005

New design for the photoblog

I've been working on a new skin for the Pixelpost-based photoblog I installed last month. It's an iterative process, design, so this screenshot reflects the 8th variation on the theme. One of the major things I'm doing is making the size of the photo a little smaller, so nobody should have to scroll to click the Next or Previous buttons.



I think it's finally done, so I've moved on to the coding part. Since I'm A) doing it all with the cleanest web-standards-based xHTML/CSS I can muster, and B) plugging it in with the PHP from Pixelpost, it's going to be a bit of a slow process. So don't be surprised if the new design doesn't show up for a while. Currently I'm just a couple hours into the semantic markup, so it still looks like this: