Nobody is reading this and the purpose of the blog was design, not necessarily content. I am hard at work on a complete redesign of www.coldproductrecords.com, a site for a new record label my friend is getting of the ground. I did an initial 2 hour site for him just to have something up, but have been working on an actual update. Here are 2 screenshots.

www.coryrepp.com/coldproduct_03.png

and

www.coryrepp.com/coldproduct_04.png

I’m looking into cool JQuery Web 2.0 style scripts that can add a lot of “flash” to the site without using any Flash!! Flash is not indexable and can be a pain to update later on. I might use a dabble of Flash but trying to stick mainly to JS and DIVs. Soon to come check back in a couple weeks!

This message has been sent out into the interspace where it will drift in the black abyss that is the World Wide Weberspace.

Well, I saw a few sites that had swappable CSS files where the user selects with a button and it changes the layout, colors, text, or whatever the coder decides using stylesheets. So, I messed around with some code and applied that to my blog here. I didn’t really like the initial color palette I had originally selected so I thought, why not just have multiple palettes and the user can select the one they want. The script also installs a cookie so that every time the user returns it loads their preferred stylesheet. I prefer #1 and #3….I know on some of them the links are hard to see but deal with it…..its for the sake of art, sheesh.

I would like to thank my girlfriend and two good friends for choosing their own personal color schemes, numbers 3-5. Number 2 was the original color scheme and number 1 was my personal choice. I might do 2 more….maybe have my niece select a palette….

The use of being able to swap CSS files is unbelievably cool. You could have the width or height resize, font resizing, menu’s that swap colors, swapping background images, anything coded into your CSS could be swapped with another CSS. I know this isn’t much of a new thing…..but its still cool!

It was a fun project and I am very happy with the results, enjoy!

ohh, and P.S. that is a background image to the right, not a menu.

What happens when a graphic/web designer gets bored, he makes things, but to make something its good to have and idea of what it is first. So, I though, what is cool but ridiculous and something other people will get on board with. So my idea was simple, Moustache May, I get my friends, family and whoever else to grow their moustaches all month long and create a blog/competition around it.

The competition is under way and I’ve been experimenting with plugins and my WordPress base theme to get the layout to where I like it. It’s a basic centered layout with right hand-nav. I went with a old-timey kind of barbershop color scheme and feel. Check it out, post a comment, digg it!

I just finished up a job for West Wind Energy a week ago. They are a startup company building wind-farms as an alternative energy source. I had a great time working on this site and the whole project went very smoothly, the client was very enjoyable and easy to work with (he is writing me a good testimonial as well).

I had a few issues with Firefox not repeating a background from the CSS, which is funny cause I’m always ripping on IE for its constant issues. I found a quick fix to the background issue, if your having a problem with FF not showing a repeating background, then try an overflow:auto; or a display:table; the display table ended up working for me and the site looks great.

Site is live here.