Web Design

I haven't previously had much time for the behemoth "Social Networking" site that is MySpace. What's the point when you have your own blog site??? MySpace seemed so limited in it's ability to be customised, unlike a drupal site like this one that is endless in it's scope. A profile box, a list of favourite music and film and stuff, a bunch of friends... it was easy to be quite cynical about it.

Until I found out about div overlays. It's brutal, like hammering a nail with a sledgehammer, but it frees you up to get quite creative. Although in executing it you can run the risk of creating a page that doesn't look anything like a MySpace page, which could confuse your average MySpacer. Retaining some kind of resemblance to a plain ol' MySpace page is still necessary.

So I've gone and customised my MySpace page, which is why I've neglected this site for a while, and now it looks pretty. I used a design that I had previously planned to implement on this site, the mirrorballs, except that considering I haven't been clubbing for a while now it doesn't seem all that appropriate. I may change it to a dance sort of picture perhaps... Anyway, the possibilities with div overlays are endless! I've also done a couple of others: Science of Sleep (the prototype...) and True Stories. The last one I only finished on the weekend and it's real pretty; not hard to do when there's already a design format to follow, I basically didn't stray too far from the existing publicity material. There's been the usual cross-browser problems (don't get me started talking about Mac Internet Explorer 5.x, I don't think it knows what to do with a negative margin, I'm just hoping nobody actually uses that browser anymore especially since MacOSX comes with Safari) but on the whole, I'm happy with it.

Take a look, add yourself as a friend, go nuts in the comment box! Come to the show! And don't forget to drop by mine as well...