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February 10, 2005
Spice it up with relish!
My very talented graphic designer cousin Anna recently decided to go out on her own, and she and I have been secretly working on the web site for her new business over the past few weeks. Well, tonight we unveil the curtain! I am very proud to announce that the brand spankin' new site for relish design is now live.
Technical details: it uses a couple of excellent open source software packages to drive the whole thing - the words are powered by Textpattern and the pictures by Photostack. This means Anna can change the text herself without having to get her hands dirty with any code, and that she can upload images without worrying about how to position them or what directory they should live in. Oh yeah, and the whole site validates to XHTML 1.0 Strict (which is more than I can say for this site).
And of course the presentation code all lives in a separate stylesheet just like it should. It looks ok in Safari, IE/Mac, IE/Win and Opera, but if you notice anything wonky please let me know.
But you don't care about all that geek speak - you just wanna see the pictures! And rightly so, because it is her portfolio that really shines. Go have a browse through some of those funky logos and professional-looking brochures, and try not to be impressed.
So if you know of anyone whose company image needs spicing up, make sure you tell them to do it with relish!
Posted by mattymcg at February 10, 2005 09:48 PMgreat site! love the scrolling area within the content. i'll have to check out textpattern for a couple of things that i want to do this year. i'm redesigning my bokufish.com website to standards and making some new business cards for (hopefully) a trip to japan later this year! busy busy! have a great time seeing DMB!
Posted by: gleek at February 11, 2005 05:12 AMAwesome stuff magain. Only problem is you've got me thinking again, and that can only mean late nights with Photoshop and coding....
Posted by: Ben at February 11, 2005 03:25 PMSneaky sneaky cuz! Not only secretly working with my sis, but also secretly started blogging again for two months now and I only just discovered it! But now I'M BACK! To torment and harrass and annoy and pester!
Good work on the relish website, looks great.
Posted by: nick at February 12, 2005 12:35 AMMatt, I did notice that the scroll function on the mouse didn't work in Firefox. Had to use the scroll bar.
Posted by: Hammy at February 17, 2005 04:06 PMThanks Hammy, yeah I noticed that. But a fix wasn't obvious to me and I figured that it was a small aspect of the site so decided to let it stay.
Thanks for the positive comments folks.
Posted by: mattymcg at February 17, 2005 08:35 PM