Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:05:28 GMT

I'm calling that done :D

I'm SO PROUD omfg. Rather than challenge myself on the technical aspects (like galleries and jQuery and php and whatever else I've been learning) this time I challenged myself with the design. Every page is laid out differently, relating to exactly what the page does and the content on it. A big trend in graphic design right now is for things to be a little off-kilter, which is of course really easy to do in print--you just move boxes around with the click of a mouse--but doing that with html where everything lines itself one after the other by default, it's a bit more fiddly. I'm so stoked with how it's come up.

Mobile is less varied, because of course there's a lot less screen real estate to play with, but the background for each page are different and the borders of images are still wonky :D

The only little thing I'd like to change and can't quite figure out how to is with the fanart gallery. Images that are too large shrink to fit the box, which is fine, but images that are smaller than the box grow to fill the box, which I don't want. In reality, though, there are only half a dozen images that small anyway, so I'm over it enough to call it done.

WOO!

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Sat, 04 May 2019 13:24:54 GMT

SORRY NO UPDATE. Here are things I need to make posts about:

AFLW Grand Final
Media consumed (mostly Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame. Hoo boy big things)
New friend!
DIY shelves project

Today~ though, I triumphantly unleash the shiny new [Snapshot Henchman] onto the world! It came to my attention towards the end of last year that people still visit that site, so I instantly got embarrassed by the layout. I made that around 2008. Since then, HTML5 and CSS3 have been invented. Phones can now navigate the internet. I graduated and have been a graphic designer for 9 years. I've learned php and jQuery. For this particular incarnation, I've also learned xml and, specifically, AJAX to make the galleries. This is where you make only a bit of a page load rather than the whole thing. Each individual zone page is run off just one, zone.php, which then pulls in the queried zone name, links it to the xml and populates the whole page around it.

I'm SO STOKED with how this has come out. There are a few minor tweaks I'd like to figure out on the mobile (on my phone, at least, the address bar doesn't scroll away as you scroll down. Also I'd like the menu dropdowns to appear where you expect them to, not right at the very top of the page, which is confusing and makes you think they're not working. Similarly, an 'x' when viewing the full-size images would be nice) but these are comparatively small things that I don't care enough about to spend the rest of my weekend working out. It's a screenshot website. If you're looking at it on a phone then it's automatically a lesser experience, anyway.

I am proud :D

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