Brainfire

Friday saw the release of the new Living Designs website. It’s a gorgeous looking site (sadly not my design) with simple navigation, which as always, turned out to be quite complicated to create. Each section has a different link colour, instantly multiplying style sheet code. I love the second level navigation. The page you are currently on is marked by a simple break in the bar on the left. I think this is a great effect.
This was the first time I used the jQuery library, which came in very handy for the unobtrusive JavaScript pop-ups.
Currently Living Designs appears eighth of page 2 in Google’s global search. Hopefully this will move up over the next week.

My final creation, South China Label Summit for Tarsus Group was launched today. The design brief was a little tough. The branding for the show wont be done until a few months before the show. This meant I had to do something generic to allow for future branding, whilst still keeping a sense of, well… branding (a contradiction, I know). All I had to go on was the logo and the fact they liked Smart Label Summit Europe which I created earlier in the year.
I’m quite happy with it though. I think it’s pretty much bug free and it easy on the eyes. I used Strict XHTML and there’s only two minor errors on the home page. I’m particularly proud of the menu, the date/venue details and the conference tab links because they use some snazzy CSS techniques. Works on all web standard Internet devices!