Welcome to the new James Day Journal!
23 Oct 2008
Hello everyone, and welcome to the new blog!
My name is Joe Hardy and I did a lot of the design and backend work for this new look. The project has been some time in the making, but we’re finally here and James and I are excited to finally unleash our work to the masses. I hope you all find it an easy-to-use and exciting way to keep up-to-date with what James has been up to.
In this post I’ll explain a few of the blog’s new features.
- James’ first priority for this new blog was that it had to be clean and simple to use - everything you wanted to see, and nothing you don’t.
- We’ve gone for a new approach to displaying the photos that James posts. Instead of pages and pages of photos, instead you’ll see a feature image and lots of thumbnails below it. Click a thumbnail and the new image will load right there. It saves you scrolling, and looks awesome!
- Wondering where how you can view posts by topic? Have a look next to each post title - you’ll see one or more keywords inside a set of parentheses. Click one of these keywords, and you’ll see all posts that relate to it.
- The logo up the top has a couple of surprises - mouse over it and you’ll see options to view a special video intro and a brief bio about James.
Please contribute your thoughts by adding comments - we’d love to hear what you think!
(P.S. I’ve included some photos to demonstrate the new image gallery. I don’t have any new photos by James to upload, so these photos I took of my daughter Nadia will have to do instead!)
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Joe, FYI,
A bit of work to do yet?
The thumbnails are overlaid on top of the blog text.
The large photo is overlaid on top of some comment text.
The text boxes on the comments fields are *tiny*.
… and some errors are displayed:
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All looks great to me dude, no errors here
There are still some right now .. but I think it’s some what dependent on the browser you are using.
looks great guys! (no errors from my end, using safari (if that helps))
Yeah…i had the comments over the top of the photo, but once i swapped to another image it sorted itself out.
Looking good… the choice of song for your intro vid is…interesting
Can’t get to the intro video.
Love it, love it, loveit!!! esp choice of hero song for clip..You’re my hero, James!! Woohoo!
All looks good at the moment - except that photos aren’t being passed through to the RSS feed.
Cheers.
I LOVE it! It looks fantastic James. And, I LOVE the song you used for your video, too funny! You are a cleaver monkey!
Oh My god,
its amazing what I can see now with a colour monitor…
Looks great JD