Steven Clark Studio Site Launch
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Over the last two days my attention has finally fallen on that domain name picked up a couple of months ago – StevenClarkStudio.com. Most of the summer has involved photography and just as much of it has been in avoiding the building of a new website. It’s small, something whipped up in the bathrobe, and it serves a specific purpose (most of which probably isn’t about making money). It is what it is – including lack of contrast between the grey background and the grey foreground – so feel free to politely point out the aging population crisis and other impairments because I totally agree. However, Steven Clark Studio has launched.
The font for the image replaced headings is Museo, a nice free font that’s quite popular at the moment, and if you have Helvetica on your computer then it works quite well with the body text. Not that there’s a lot of body text going. This is really just a place to put some photographic firsts apart from the jumble of constant shots posted over on Walk a Mile in my Shoes. Both sites have a different purpose.
Lightview was used on the galleries page to provide slideshows of the individual photo sets (never more than three) and I considered doing this on the home page with the four large thumbnails which have that affordance, but seriously the size of downloading the Prototype library for someone just visiting the home page made it prohibitively slow for low bandwidth users. As it is, that page is image heavy, as you’ll note there is a lot of body text in Museo as image (with the text in HTML but removed using a negative text-indent). The H2 headings in sidebars also use a negative text indent to do very simple image replacement, as is also the practise for H2 page titles.
