Note: this post refers to our previous design of www.davidandjennilyn.com.
After a few more tweaks and changes, I’ve added our wedding information page in preparations for our “Save the Day” e-mails which have this web site’s URL printed on it. Most of the site’s content is to come but I wanted to get our site up.
Note: this post refers to our previous design of www.davidandjennilyn.com.
Amazing what inspiration can come from one source then another then another. I worked on this layout for many hours late into the night before a work day and was dissatisfied with how my paper prototype translated on the screen. Then after some feedback from Jennilyn and Clark, I grew to like it, especially after making the colors more consistent.
I also found a cool css rollover trick that got me to incorporate the design element I’ve admired from Adobe’s CS product packaging. The trick is pretty slick because it allows me to create a rollover using purely css, no javascript, and is quick. The idea behind is when someone hovers over the image, the lower image is ‘shifted up’ on-the-fly. This also alleviates the problem of preloading images so people don’t see blanks when the rollover image hasn’t been loaded. An example of one of the images is shown to the right, it used to be the “Photos” background, but I used the current one instead because it allowed me to use white lettering to better balance the entire navigational graphic.
It’s funny how creative things can get. Jennilyn and I have been trying to figure out what to do for our “Save the day” pre-invitation message to our friends who may need additional time to secure vacation and/or flights to come to our wedding. I remembered an idea I had about having a string tied to Jennilyn’s left hand, so that her engagement ring would be a visual indicator of our upcoming celebration. The string would represent remembering something important and special, and her finger would be pointing to our wedding day.