Thursday, August 12, 2010
I must confess, as usual, the things that look the easiest are often the most difficult.
I decided to change the mission of AnnistonAlabama.net a few days ago. I totally changed the look, and it is different than all other community websites now.
Community websites seem to fall into two categories: They either look like they were cloned from all the others in a slick but busy style, or they are really clunky and amateurish. This happens because the designer either either a blog or CMS format like Wordpress, or some kind of beginner page maker that spits out a full site after only a few clicks.
Well...I wanted to do something different... I wanted to do something as sharp as possible using HTML. I think I'm on the correct track.
Whereas GetCalhoun.com is a workhorse, AnnistonAlabama.net is designed to be a showhorse. The ad prices will reflect this philosophy. It's going to be something Anniston businesses ought to want to latch onto. It's a clear departure from what I have done in the past. However, after all is said and done, it is a spinoff of GetCalhoun.com, which is the "everyman's" website. There is absolutely positively nothing like GetCalhoun.com that I have ever seen...and I have looked a lot. It's one heck of a solution for small businesses in the region. Every time another advertiser comes along, he makes it better for all the advertisers. There's just nothing better you can do with your ad dollar!
But, back to AnnistonAlabama.net. It's going to be a fine showcase website for business in Anniston, and businesses who support Anniston. It's going to be fine, because it will be seen by anyone wanting more information particular to Anniston... This means everyone from the little old lady in Arnet, Texas just fooling around to the mega-billionaire looking to escape California or Dusseldorf, Germany and bring his factory to Anniston. It's going to be a fine ambassador.
Oh yes.. about the simple I mentioned up top.... AnnistonAlabama.net is NOT a simple website. One of the simplest looking things about it carried me down coding roads I have never seen before. The slide show which is NOT designed for the platform I'm using to build the site, cost me right at 12 hours to figure out. We're talking CSS, Javascript, and some pestulent bit of stuff called Mootools, none of which I have much to any familiarity with. Sigh. It was fun to see it work, though. Finally. And until the browser boys throw a monkey wrench into the works sooner or later with their revisions, maybe it will keep working! I think the results are pretty darn neat!
I decided to change the mission of AnnistonAlabama.net a few days ago. I totally changed the look, and it is different than all other community websites now.
Community websites seem to fall into two categories: They either look like they were cloned from all the others in a slick but busy style, or they are really clunky and amateurish. This happens because the designer either either a blog or CMS format like Wordpress, or some kind of beginner page maker that spits out a full site after only a few clicks.
Well...I wanted to do something different... I wanted to do something as sharp as possible using HTML. I think I'm on the correct track.
Whereas GetCalhoun.com is a workhorse, AnnistonAlabama.net is designed to be a showhorse. The ad prices will reflect this philosophy. It's going to be something Anniston businesses ought to want to latch onto. It's a clear departure from what I have done in the past. However, after all is said and done, it is a spinoff of GetCalhoun.com, which is the "everyman's" website. There is absolutely positively nothing like GetCalhoun.com that I have ever seen...and I have looked a lot. It's one heck of a solution for small businesses in the region. Every time another advertiser comes along, he makes it better for all the advertisers. There's just nothing better you can do with your ad dollar!
But, back to AnnistonAlabama.net. It's going to be a fine showcase website for business in Anniston, and businesses who support Anniston. It's going to be fine, because it will be seen by anyone wanting more information particular to Anniston... This means everyone from the little old lady in Arnet, Texas just fooling around to the mega-billionaire looking to escape California or Dusseldorf, Germany and bring his factory to Anniston. It's going to be a fine ambassador.
Oh yes.. about the simple I mentioned up top.... AnnistonAlabama.net is NOT a simple website. One of the simplest looking things about it carried me down coding roads I have never seen before. The slide show which is NOT designed for the platform I'm using to build the site, cost me right at 12 hours to figure out. We're talking CSS, Javascript, and some pestulent bit of stuff called Mootools, none of which I have much to any familiarity with. Sigh. It was fun to see it work, though. Finally. And until the browser boys throw a monkey wrench into the works sooner or later with their revisions, maybe it will keep working! I think the results are pretty darn neat!
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