My cousin and Newsvine writer extraordinaire has finally launched his own personal website. Brian is a classicly-trained graphic designer, but to this point, hasn’t done much web design. He put the site together with Apple’s iWeb, and I must say I’m impressed with what he was able to do. Of course, the code is crap, but Apple has made it relatively easy for someone like Brian to get his stuff out there — and that’s awesome.
001 // Rob Goodlatte // 10.02.2007 // 1:19 AM
Looks great. This is also the first time I’ve seen the new Apple Web gallery—it’s very slick.
002 // Brian Ford // 10.02.2007 // 5:54 PM
For what it’s worth, I also happen to be classically trained to rock your fucking socks off.
Thanks for the link. Thinking in terms of web-design space is so utterly different than graphic design and information design, so I’ve definitely still got a long way to go.
I’ll be putting together an article about the ins and outs of iWeb development shortly.
003 // Matt Robin // 10.02.2007 // 9:50 PM
Hey, nice one Brian! ;)
Jeff: Yeah, I echo your comments about the coding, but as you’ve stated - for Brian to get a site like this up on iWeb is the main thing. This is the first iWeb site I’ve seen so far.
The site folder structure is a bit weird….(I mean: /Brian Ford/Brian Ford/Brian Ford.html - does look a bit strange, how many Brian Ford does there need to be in one URL?! Hahaha)
Brian: I’ll try and check back from time to time and see what’s going on.
Matt
004 // Brian Ford // 10.03.2007 // 2:34 PM
Re: Site Structure
iWeb sets up a welcome page by default, and if you delete it, the next page in the hierarchy doesn’t then become the index.html page. Instead, it just redirects to that page from the top level directory, which doesn’t exist. I was actually worried that it wouldn’t let me delete that welcome page, and the ugly URL is better than having to set up a lame welcome page.
Stupid, yes. Seems like a check box which says “make this my default page” would suffice.
005 // Baxter // 10.03.2007 // 3:25 PM
Looks nice, Brian. Bout time you got on the web. Woulda commented there, but it looks like you have comments turned off.
If you keep peeking at css and html source code, you’ll know quite a bit pretty fast.
006 // Brian Ford // 10.03.2007 // 5:53 PM
Comments turned off?
You should be able to comment on either of the posts…