New work: Pedale Design
13 October 2008
Tyler and I hooked up earlier this year about building a website for his new design biz. He’s mainly a print designer, so we met and talked through some general web UI stuff to keep in mind. He’d send design drafts and I’d tell him what good and bad I saw in it (in terms of design conventions and whether or not I could build it). The design was at last concluded. He went on a trip to Guatemala and I was left to build it. Despite the schedule falling a little behind, things came together pretty well.
The design is rather unconventional compared to everything else on the web these days, but I came to appreciate that, and it really pushed and further-developed my skillset. It’s built on Textpattern, and uses jQuery, jCarousel, Jeremy Keith’s showPic image gallery, and Dagon Design’s form mailer script. Aside from Eric Meyer’s CSS reset, all the CSS was handwritten — and despite this being a very image-heavy site, I made sure all the content was accessible in the markup.
There’s still a little more to be done. The store and a blog are on their way, and there are still some issues with IE6. Check it out, let me know if anything is wacked out. And if you love it, be sure to write a note to Tyler.
