Development Notes

This was the original front page of the site while I was developing the layout. Preserved here for no apparent reason.

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Yes, I redesigned it again. I just have a thing about monochrome. It also gave me a chance to have a play with Adobe® Illustrator®. Very nice tool to work with, makes doing text and vector images so much easier; the Slice tool works wonderfuly. I'm not happy with the compass rose in the background yet: I shall redesign it at some point; there's too much solid "black" in the centre.

All I have to do now is make the CSS1 look right in MSIE. God I hate that browser. I hate it so much. Please, for heaven's sake Microsoft, make a damn browser that follows standards properly.

OK. I've got it so that it's at least readable in IE now. It's not exactly the same as it would be in a Standards Compliant browser, but it's as close as I'm going to get. Do yourselves a favour and ditch IE.

Hmm, what do we think. #FFFFFF or #FAFAFA (a just off-white grey colour) for the background? I've set it to the grey colour to see if it's easier to read - I think it might be. I'll need to redo the PNG file (can't use transparent ones, IE borks).

I've re-done the compass rose - it's slightly more stylised now - I think it looks better.