In late October and early November I completed work on 2 new Web sites. I added them to my portfolio a week or so ago. This is my first chance to mention them on my blog.
The first site completed—completed just in time for their Halloween party—was for the Lower Red Lion, a pub and guest house in St Albans.
It has 400 years of history behind it, with some visible timber and brickwork, and featured in the ITV series Foyle’s War.
My aim was to make the site as useful as possible to people thinking of visiting St Albans, and to showcase all the pub’s attractions.
I am now working extensively with typographic grids, creating pages which balance vertically as well as horizontally. This site was my first complete site to use such a grid. It was also my first HTML 5 site.
The site which I designed and developed for the theatre group Footlights Calpe is also an HTML 5 site. A bit simpler than the Lower Red Lion site, it still allowed me a few theatrical effects.
For a few more details about the two sites, you can glance through the Website notes and Design notes which accompany each display on my portfolio page.
