A Sydney Artist Portfolio site

catnip · 2006-07-29 01:57:20

This website was created to showcase a Sydney Artist’s 25 years of practice. It went live yesterday.

Challenges included expanding a parent category (Art Form) to display its sub categories. (I aint no coder)

Sandor Weisz’s stw_category_tree came in quite handy (Thanks!)
zem_article_image was used for the thumbnail pages and of course zem_contact

Any constructive crit is welcome.

Thanks ~j

Last edited by catnip (2006-07-29 02:05:36)

Infi · 2006-07-29 03:18:34

Wow. That is just gorgeous.

There are a couple of minor errors on validation : The use of << characters on previous next links; the need for closure on <code><br /></code> tags, etc. Might want to try good ol’ <code>« and »</code> for the prev/next instead.

It really is a lovely-looking site and shows off the artist’s work beautifully. The galleries are especially nice and very well-organized.

I collect artists. :) Bookmarked!

Last edited by Infi (2006-07-29 03:19:15)

catnip · 2006-07-29 04:51:19

Thanks Infi, both for the positive feedback and suggestions

It now validates XHTML.

« and » are good – I just wish they related better to the size of uppercase letters, i.e. not be smaller and align to the base of “Next” “Previous” .

Last edited by catnip (2006-07-29 04:53:24)

colak · 2006-07-29 07:38:16

It s a very beautiful site: congrats

catnip wrote:

« and » are good – I just wish they related better to the size of uppercase letters, i.e. not be smaller and align to the base of “Next” “Previous” .

Why don’t you give it an in line style: <code><span style=“1.5em”>&laquo;</span> <txp:older>Previous</txp:older></code>…

catnip · 2006-07-29 08:05:29

Thanks for pointing that out!

Isn’t there some theorem that says style and content should be separated?
I realize I can do it in the style sheet, but I think at this stage I might just leave it as is

Infi · 2006-07-29 15:11:46

You have an id=“skippy” in your stylesheet, but as font-sizing would affect all the text and not just the arrows, you probably need a vertical alignment of the arrows to keep the sense of aesthetics intact. They’d still be smaller, but centered.

A CSS guru might be able to answer: It’s not an image, but might vertical-align: middle; be used on that block somehow to bring the characters in line? (Of course, if it doesn’t, it should. We’re all familiar with the math necessary to align things vertically. Eeesh.)

P.S. The text and primary borders are quite a bit lighter than the gray of the image borders. I’m curious as to the design decision there. Why darker?

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wet · 2006-07-29 21:34:38

catnip wrote:

Isn’t there some theorem that says style and content should be separated?

This is more a kind of religion. As the arrows even aren’t content per se (they are navigational or decorative elements) it will pass “The Great Semantic Test” to style them directly, imho. And it won’t reduce the maintainabilty of the sites overall visual style, either.

squaredeye · 2006-07-29 21:45:21

wet wrote:

This is more a kind of religion.

That’s absolutely right sense’ Wet.

:)

alexandra · 2006-07-30 09:41:48

wet schrieb:

This is more a kind of religion.

LOL right and mind me, i have been infiltrted already …

Other than that: i wonder why catsnip did chose this pale grey for the background? To me it is not the best color for the nice work of the artist lady. this grey ‘swallows up’ the colors. I would try white or black or something else…

Last edited by alexandra (2006-07-30 09:43:57)

Infi · 2006-07-30 18:20:39

wet wrote:

As the arrows even aren’t content per se (they are navigational or decorative elements) it will pass “The Great Semantic Test” to style them directly

True, that.

As a webmaster, I’ve had nightmare scenarios on large corporate sites and web applications, tracking down and replacing in-line styling elements with something more easily matintained. But on a site like this one – that has the added bonus of markup templates (thank you, TXP!) – I don’t see the harm, either. The markup occurs once.

Mechanics and aesthetics are easier maintained overall when both sides are taken into consideration. Takes a little compromise.

catnip · 2006-07-31 11:57:01

Ok, now that both my code and design have come under scrutiny, does anyone have a solution to the x that gets swapped with #215; on this page.
This seems to occur in the description of every piece that has three dimensions.

Infi · 2006-07-31 12:26:27

:) That’s what you get for having such a perfect site! People have to nitpick to come up with any constructive criticism.

I’m not sure what you’re referring to with the x/character swap. I don’t see anything unusual in FF. The next/prev will come back to haunt you in IE7, though. For some ungodly reason, the block is positioned over that line. (Looks like a strikethrough.)

Word is, IE7 will be an automatic update for XP users slated for the last quarter of the year. May be a bug that’s gone by then, but you might want to check it out and prepare a fix, just in case. It’s the only thing that’s appears off. Unfortunately, I don’t see an obvious reason for it.

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