Version 2 of this Website Launched!

The First Version of the Website

This article was originally written to introduce version 2 of my personal website. While are now at version 3, you can still see the old version referenced here that I made as a Senior at UTD – check it out at http://old2.benmorrow.info. You might also like to see the very first original version I made as a Freshman at http://old.benmorrow.info.

After a whole summer of preparation, it is finally here – version 2 of this site, benmorrow.info.

I look forward to hearing what you have to say about it. Feel free to drop me a line. Just head on over to the contact link in the upper right-hand corner of this page.

A New Version of the Website

Features

• Liquid layout
  • The home, about, labs, and blog have percentage based columns so when the window is resized (even very small) the columns retain their proportion.
  • The Slideshow layout (as evidenced on portfolio and India pictures pages) positions the slideshow box in the center of the window no matter how large or small the window dimensions are.
• Flickr-based Images
  • On the secondary sidebar on the home page and the flash slideshows on the portfolio and India pictures.
  • This allows me to take advantage of the Flickr community for tagging, commenting, and capturing views
• PNG Logo
  • When the window is scaled to small dimension my signature/logo overlays the navigation tabs.
• Easily Updatable
  • Radiant Content Management System (http://radiantcms.org)
    • Provides layouts, snippets, the Radius language, and an administrative panel
  • Extensive use of cascading style sheets (CSS)
    • Makes changing colors, font-styles, and images in the site-wide design a snap
• Web Standards
  • XHTML 1.1 compliant
  • Ensure the site is both future-proof and available across all browsers
• Usable
  • A simple, expected layout
  • The operating system’s interface font is used if it is available. This gives a familiar look, and also ensures readability.
    • “Segoe UI” on Vista
    • “Tahoma” on XP
    • “Arial”, “Helvetica”, or “sans-serif” on Linux
    • “Lucida Grande” on OSX
    • “Charcoal” on Mac OS 8 and 9