Wordpress

I have been working on the new Ailea Studio website for weeks now and finally I find myself able to sit back and enjoy all my hard work.


My decision to rewrite Ailea Studio using the wordpress framework was partially a consideration of curiosity. I have had numerous people approach me about the possiblity of creating a simple and easily managed site that didn’t require a knowledge of html for basic maintenance. Wordpress seemed the perfect solution but with no background experience the idea was mostly supposition.

With the completion of this project I can happily say that wordpress is a very good tool for creating simple portfolio and personal sites that require regular simple updates. The customization process is not all that challenging and the integration of pre-built plugins allows wordpress to do almost anything that you could wish.

In short I’m quite satisfied with it and am looking forward to doing more projects with wordpress in the future.

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10 Commandments of Web Design

This is just brilliant.
I laughed and I agreed with the entire article and any one out there who likes to build the occasional site would do well to hop on over and read The 10 Commandments.

Seriously, I feel like I should print this out and pray to it every day.
My favorite is 'Thou shalt not abuse flash', my savior has come.

sexy flash

So in planning for my own gallery redesign and also working on some consulting for a friends gallery I've been spending a good deal of time researching different ways of showing off a large number of images in an easy to load, esthetically pleasing way, and damned if this isn't the sexiest gallery I've ever seen.
Its a beautiful utilization of flash in a simple environment and it loads quickly and beautifully. The only issue for me is that it is flash which still has some compatibility problems for older browsers and users who don't like to download new software and Flash is still not supported on phones with web access which is a problem because the number of users accessing sites from mobile devices is raising every day.

So, as beautiful as it is I don't know if I could use it in my own site yet. Never the less... its fucking gorgeous.