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+ Mon, September 13

Dokas Photos

After a summer of work, I’m happy to announce Dokas Photos to the internet.

My dad has been taking professional black and white photographs for the last 30 years or so and has recently taken an interest in getting his work online.  I produced this portfolio site for him over the course of this summer, swimming in the sweet nectar of valid and semantic code.

He’s already placed ~150 of his prints online, and I hear he’s ready to put more up shortly including photos from his trip to Greece this past June.  But enough of that, you can read about all the details over there.

On my end of things, yes, the site is fully accessible and compliant with all of your favorite standards.  It even has an Atom feed!  For me, this site was the largest departure from my standard course of design.  A portfolio is a far cry from a weblog (though, for those who are interested, his site is powered by MT) and as such required a great deal of thinking in terms of usability and flow.

It was also a wonderful chance to work with some recent techniques.  You might notice a modified version of Dan Cederholm’s fantastic CSS Tabs in action.  For those of you that missed it, it’s right below a modified version of the Fahrner Image Replacement technique.  Onion Skinned drop shadows are also heavily used, but that’s only because they’re so damn handy (if markup heavy).

But with all these CSS shenanigans, problems reared their horrible little heads.  Doug Bowman came to the rescue once again with his IE5/mac Band-Pass Filter debuting recently, saving users of that browser from some truly hideous errors.  Additionally, on account of Internet Explorer’s deep-grained hatred for PNG images (typically requiring ugly hacks), I’ve used the silly but useful Conditional Comments available in those browsers to prevent them from choking on content they shouldn’t even try to support.

In case you were wondering.

In any event, it’s live and now I think it’s time to buy a new toy.

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1 → shanecavanaugh  –  (Sep 13 2004,  7:53 PM)

Both the photographs and the design look excellent. Bravissimo.

2 → Brian Andersen  –  (Sep 15 2004, 11:20 AM)

What a coincidence.

I have a dad who’s been taking B&W photos for ages as well, developed in our own basement. Looks absolutely stunning.

I’ve been meaning to make a site for him sometime as a fun diversion from work - maybe I’ll show him this :)

I like the scrolling effect, very sexy. In a way it still feels weird, that when I scroll, the entire page doesn’t move.






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