All Swished Up

I've spent the best part of today building my parents website - a chore that has been long overdue since the last one I did for them was done whilst I was at University, so thats about 6 years ago now and it hasn't had many updates in the meantime.

So whilst I'd done a design a couple of weeks back, today I actually set about building it. The HTML side of things was easy enough (if you disregard the usual madness trying to get something cross browser compatible). I've gone for a much simpler design than their last site, and perhaps the new one is a little more fitting for a solicitors firm. But I've added a bit of va va voom by adding flash banners to the site. I found a natty script that allows you to display the flash banner if it's installed on the users PC and a static image if not so I don't have to worry about the issues associated with that.

And since I'm no expert at flash, I've been using Swish, which is really cool and an easy way to get some nice effects without using Flash MX etc. So with Swish, and the aid of the designers dirty secret I've come up with a pretty good site.

By the evening I am almost ready to show my parents the site even though it's not completed and the content needs updates etc, and hurrah! they actually like it, no complaints, no "could you justs" or "wouldn't it be better if...", and for my parents that's a first!

I also showed the site to one of my old bosses, who having gone through somewhat a difficult couple of years has got himself back on his feet and started up his business again. And he'd like his site redesigning too, again the existing site is one I did in the late 90's (and it shows, I'm almost embarrassed by it!). So I need to come up with some ideas about that, though it's just a project to do as and when rather than here and now.

So what with doing sites, cooking tea and talking to my parents the day has rocketed by, and after some serious pillow talk with Phil it's then time for bed.

Posted by Abi on the November 14, 2005 10:35 PM