Re-design

January 8th, 2007

Site re-design for rachelmacdonald.org

The site as it stands was produced about feb 06, I was resonably happy with the design at the time, but rachel has moved onwards and is in the process of releasing her second album.
Name to be announced any time soon.

During the last few months Rachel has been busy playing gigs around the uk, building up her exposure, while I was consumed in other projects. Consequently aspects of the site became a little rushed, and thrown together at the last minute.

With the imminent arrival of the new album I wanted to freshen and clean up the design, as well as the underlying code.

The design process involves many factors, most of which I have learned the hard way.
One of the most obvious problems and one that is often overlooked by the fledgling designer is browser compatability.
Whilst my pages may look good on the machine I use, it is not guaranteed to look the same on all systems.

Before we even delve into the issues involving valid css and xhtml markup, I would like to quickly mention colour.

Having built up my knowledge on a 800/600 monitor, not advancing from windows ‘98 until fairly recently in the scheme of things, I was quite shocked to see the massive difference in colour when I viewed my work on my new laptop.

So things needed to change:

You can look at the new, only slightly updated and inprogress design here for now, need to get approval to move the domain and reboot on the Dreamhost servers.

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