Form One Lane

Form One Lane gets an unexpected overhaul

So Santa brought me a new camera for Chrissy, which is so many different kinds of awesome I don't think I could ever catalogue them all. I took some photos of the family, and later some self-portraits, largely as an excuse to play around with depth of field and white-balance and various other photography things I haven't the first clue about. Yes, my life really is just that exciting.

I'm playing around with one of the photos a little later and decide it would probably look pretty cool as part of a website design. Back In The Day I used to re-design websites at the drop of a nerd's beanie, but I'd barely touched this site since I first wrote the design — and the CMS — over two years ago. So while I was re-doing the design, I took the opportunity to re-write the backend as well: back in '07 I was sort of learning as I went with the CMS, so the code was in serious need of re-factoring. And because I become obsessed easily, that's pretty much all I've been doing (apart from visiting dad and breaking my own spirit on my mountain bike, of course) since Christmas.

So the site's been re-designed, and the post-and-archive delivery thing's had a complete overhaul. The code's almost pretty in places (operative word: almost). I'm very pleased with how the design turned out: clean and simple, and looking like it took hardly any work (ha!). The only downside is I can't really test it: I have Windows running IE8, Google Chrome, and FireFox 3.5.5. Safari is choosing not to run for reasons of its own. I'm particularly curious about IE6.

If anyone reads this, mind giving us a little hint about how it looks on your system?