redshiftrebels.com
It’s been online for a little over a week now, but my latest piece of design/code work is complete; a full website for Redshift Rebels.
After couple of years of on again/off again discussion with Redshift founder Chris, we finally set the ball rolling last December, coming up with a plan which evolved as the site was developed.
From a technical view point - the site is completely bespoke (aside from tumblr for the blog, and Big Cartel for the store ). All front and back end code was produced myself in:
- PHP
- MySQL
- (X)HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
Is the site perfect? Not quite. If there had been more time and budget I would have done a few things differently, but it is a functional, attractive site which is easy to update. I learned a lot in the process which I will carry on to future projects, both freelance and professionally - I got a job as a Web Developer recently, and start in a week or so.
I have a lengthy list of long and short term improvements for this site, but the priority for me is moving away from Big Cartel for the online store and looking for ways to store, display and search content as the site grows. Although it uses tumblr for the blog, I don’t feel this is a priority for upgrading - tumblr has a good community and is powerful enough for the content posted. Plus, custom themes are pretty straightforward once you understand the quirks.
Now this is online, work can begin on my new website - alanshortis.com. The current version is now a few years old, and it’s about time I put some of the new HTML5 and CSS3 tricks to good use.
I always considered Cyclocross as pretty stupid, and inferior to Mountain Biking. That’s probably got a lot to do with the years I spend racing MTBs.
This photo has changed my mind for the most part, though I still cringe when people act impressed when a cyclocross rider bunnyhops a 9 inch log…
via Hellgate Cyclery
(Source: bhard)
