Wednesday, June 4, 2008

New workstation and redesigned site

I'm typing this post from my new workstation, just came in today. Dual Intel Xeons running at 3 ghz, 4 gigs of ram, twin high RPM 120GB hard drives. Photoshop CS3 was installed and up and running in approximately 10 minutes. This will vastly improve my work flow and dramatically reduce the amount of time necessary to process images.

I've also recently reworked the website, http://bhcimaging.com, this time integrating CSS and a bit of javascript. Below is a screenshot of the new homepage.






















The implementation of a CSS style sheet referenced by all pages will make maintenance much easier and also yields a much better interface for the user as well as a more consistent layout. Below is an example of javascript and script.aculo.us (http://script.aculo.us) as used to display photographs within a gallery.




















A very nice effect. I must say I'm pleased with the new design. There are a few kinks that still need to be worked out. Internet Explorer 6, which is notoriously bad for interpreting CSS, muffs up the footer. However since the usage statistics (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp) for IE6 are slowly decreasing, currently at 28.9%, I see little reason to fix this error, especially since all the content is still viewable.

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