Extreme Makeover 2007
Permalink | Tweet This! | | December 16, 2007 by John in Freelancing, JB.com, My 2002 Triumph Bonneville America, Web Design
So here it is. The Dog’s Bollocks.
I’ve been working on this design for quite a while now. Should work in all Gecko-based browsers and Internet Explorer from version 5.5 5.01 forward (it blows up real good in 4.0). I have a ton of tweaking to do but it’s close enough to launch. There is some kind of bug in IE 5.5 and 6 (but oddly enough not in 5.01) that effects the left margin after a blockquote tag. I have to research that.
The graphics and color scheme are inspired by the planned makeover of my bike. The bulldog is going on the sides of my tank, the base color is British racing green and the pale green racing stripes with lime green pinstriping will go over the top of my fenders and tank. The “Friar’s Flyer” number plate at the bottom of the sidebar, visible only in IE7 and Firefox, will adorn something on my bike, either a sprocket cover or the rear fender, overlapping the racing stripe much like it does here. Finally, there will be perforated, brushed-steel accents in various places.
After I delivered the HKM web site I was left with an unused license of Monoslideshow, so it has found a home here. When the bike is done I’ll replace the images in the slideshow with images of the bike. I couldn’t get it to work on the other pages but I think I like the more streamlined look, reserving the slideshow only for the homepage.
Let me know if you see anything anomalous.
P.S. I also used the graphics to redesign my (virtually unused) myspace page.