Version 6.3 goes live…

Posted on | July 13, 2006 | No Comments

Almost a year ago, I launched v5.0 of my website. It was time for a new look. Inspired by The Zen of CSS Design, I wanted my new site to have a strong foundation in CSS layout and maintain the cleanest coding possible. I was going to break free of tables, and complex image tables I used to depend on.

V6.0 ended up as my myspace design. It works well there, but isn’t professional enough for me. V6.1 was trashed, not clean enough. V6.2 would make a great kids page. V6.3 is what you see today.

Finally after a few days of design, slicing, and optimizing images, a day of CSS coding, and 2 days of CSS template modification and creation the site is done. (yeah!)

Please let me know what you think of it. Likes, dislikes, and things that should be improved in v6.4, which is being developed.(j/k)

- Shane

Here is the brief run down of my project log:

Check List:

• XHTML Validated – Check 7/5
• CSS Validated – Check 7/5
• Blogger Template Functional – Check 7/9
• Atom RSS Feed Functional – Check 7/9
• Gallery2 Template Functional – Check 7/10
• Portfolio Updated – Check 7/11
• Hoffey Break – Check 7/11
• Includes Statements – Check 7/11
• Resumes Versions – Check 7/12
• Spell Check – Check 7/12
• Launched – Check 7/12

To Do:

1. Metadata for Portfolio Pages
2. Check Gallery2 Image Sizes – Check 7/15
3. Organize Gallery Albums – Check 7/15
4. Add 2 Sites to Portfolio
5. Resubmit to Search Engines
6. HTML Validation – Check 7/15
7. Browser Checks:
   • Firefox: Check 7/12
   • Safari: Check 7/12
   • Opera: Check 7/12
   • IE6: TBD

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