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You would think that writing about a new editorial line for this blog would get me to actually follow it. Instead, what I did was posting about events in Burma and a photo sent to me from Madagascar

Anyway, here it is, I promised to post about stuff I worked on, so I will post for now a simple HTML website, one that I did 3 months ago, and next, there will be stuff that required programming. It’s the website made for a friend, she has a bed and breakfast on the Plateau, Montreal, and wanted a website for her summer clients.

This is a pure CSS/html website, there was no programming behind, just some design discussions and some (over)use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. She also wanted some Flash effects (snow falling from the leaves) but I somehow managed to run away from her suggestion. She also wanted some curvy lines and fancy fonts, to which I responded a blank look. Our opposite “design” philosophies finally landed chezfanny

screenshot of the homepage, other pages follow the same canvas

The website works best with Safari or Firefox. It has a funky logo, have a lush background mixed with a moving menu system. We also wanted to change the website’s theme according to the season and the weather, by changing to white in winter for instance, but she didn’t have enough material to do that. But it’s ok, we really liked the overall result and so did her customers, and that’s what matters.

If you want more info., here are the tools that were used for the process:

• CSSEdit (which is great)
• Color Schemer Studio (which I don’t use anymore)
• xScope (which is more than great)
• Photoshop
• Illustrator (something I should use more)

* textmate

If I had to redo it again, I guess I would use StaticMatic