A Bloy and his Blog

Today I unveiled my latest web creation. It’s a site for the Wisconsin Region of the National Cathedral Association.

If you’re interested in a brief description of how I created it, take a look at my portfolio on www.BloyDesigns.com.

Update: February 9, 2007
As of today, the domain BloyDesigns.com no longer exists. Information about my web development work can be found on my resume.

I’ve got a pretty good excuse why I haven’t posted anything here in a while. I’ve been busy working on a couple of web sites, which were just unveiled over the past few days. The first, www.BloyDesigns.com, is a site I set up to showcase my web design work. I created the other site, CouchCommander.com, for a stand up comedian I know.

In other news, today is Earth Day. Remember Mother Earth as you go about your life. Please do everything you can to keep her healthy and beautiful.

Update: February 9, 2007
As of today, the domain BloyDesigns.com no longer exists.
Information about my web development work can be found on my resume.

This week I unveiled my latest web creation, Barstool Sportsmen, which is now up and running live.

Thanks to Mike (one of the Barstool Sportsmen) the idea has been planted in my brain to set up a web site for my free lance web design work. Hopefully that’ll be up in the next few months.

It may not look much different, but this site has now been re-tooled with XHTML. In addition to the changes under the hood, I also took one of the better dynamic javascript menus on the net and modified it for use on this site (look for it in the upper right hand corner of most of the interior pages). Many thanks to Peter-Paul Koch for his excellent web site QwirksMode and his outstanding DHTML menu which he makes available.

And if you’re not interested in web design stuff, take a look at my about me page. There you’ll find some interesting info on the origin of the Bloy name which I posted recently.

Last week I unveiled a redesign of the web site for the Oak Creek Public Library.

It’s my first site design using XHTML and it also features a layout done completely with cascading style sheets. In this age of information, it’s especially important for public libraries to have web sites which are accessible to anyone, including those with disabilities. Using these two technologies allowed me to create such a site (plus it gave me a good excuse to really delve into XHTML).

An new e-mail discussion list for web designers started last week. Css-discuss is a list devoted to discussions of cascading style sheets and their use in web design. I’ve only been subscribed to the list a few days, but I’ve already learned more from css-discuss in a couple of days than I’ve learned from other e-mail lists in months. Kudos to CSS guru and List Chaperone Eric Meyer. Nice job.

Now if I just had some more time to read all those e-mails…

Today’s entry is brought to you by Design Rant, an excellent article about web design. I really liked the author’s ideas of a designer’s code being like an onion and how important it is to consider the structure of a website’s content before even thinking about a layout and look for the site. Of course it also talks about the importance of cascading style sheets, a subject near and dear to this designer.