Building a site: Example
Want an inside look at the developing stages of a new website?
Enviromusic.co.nz is the first version of the site – really a fully working prototype which was put together very quickly. The artist suddenly changed their minds and wanted to use all new graphics.
So far the product pages are done, and next the set of Listen pages will be reimplemented tomorrow. The Play module will just use the new background and then its ready to be switched over. But until then you can peek at version 2 here:
UPDATE: title pages and listen pages are now working and layout is close to the original. Hold fine tuning in case of change bubbling up and causing rework. Exact layout is a little fiddly, but with a uniform plan it need not be hard.
PLAN: The PLAY script is next, and then a uniform way of downloading all the PDFs from one place, and the LISTEN/SCRIPT and RIGHTS pages just being appropriate links (if there is no content, do not make a page, make a function).
SCHEDULE: Received new site graphics on Friday. It’s Tuesday and most of the “refactoring” to the new design is operational. Ahead of budget and on time.
RAMBLE: The old fashioned Page Flow layout method worked out. For a Linux LAMP programmer, the windows toolsets are both powerful and frustrating. The advantage Macs have over Windows is the logic of their applications is more succinct, tends not to interrupt artistic expression. The problem I have with Windows is just when you are nearly finished with a job, you get a “Windows is running low on memory” warning. You expect the computer to do a million things at once. It can only do 999,999 before it gets plonky.