This is a taster of what’s to come in a few weeks. I’m building this website, for the Scottish Golf Heritage Festival, with an array of incredibly useful components and features: I’m using the MODx content management system, FoxyCart for an integrated shop and registration process, and a wealth of snazzy (I’m certain I can make that word cool again) rich interface components. I’m particularly looking forward to building the graphing functionality for the admin system, for which I’m probably going to use the gRaphael javascript library.
The holding page, two screenshots of which are shown above, is the result of a lot of work in establishing the general layout and style of the forthcoming site. It combines several approaches to web design, having elements of both fixed and fluid styles. Using the background photograph effectively was quite a challenge. It would probably be fruitful to break down the CSS and go through it here, but maybe next time. Ciao!