arkitrave :: log

There’s a new site in town. Nepo Strategies Group is the web services division of Noein, and is a venture involving IT professionals in marketing, writing, graphic design and web design. My portfolio has been updated here.

The site is, of course, all CSS and XHTML, with a little Javascript thrown in to make the menu system work. Currently, only users of advanced browsers will have enhanced nav functionality; I will be adding the script to make it work in IE soon, but it was deemed not important enough to delay launch.

The photography is a mix of stock and my own images; the masthead images are all stock, and the page images are mostly mine, though a few were client-supplied. I don’t always think they work together very well, but deadlines are deadlines.

I wanted to keep the navigation all on top, to free up the screen real estate on each side of the content for images and extra content. I think this is quite successful on many pages, with one side being used for portfolio-style shots and the other side being used for a pullquote-style advertising blurb.

It doesn’t work quite right in Safari. There is a positioning problem that pushes the main content down, and I think it is a bug in Safari that refuses to allow the scrolling to get down far enough to see the footer. Other than that, I think it works in all modern browsers (I didn’t even try on Mac IE5). It could be because I hacked the positioning so much to get it to work cross-browser. Still, I think that there’s no reason Safari shouldn’t display my footer.

In case you’re wondering, the logotype uses Gill Sans and Warnock Pro Display Italic. I’m going to play with the new sIFR Flash replacement technique to get the headers to display in Gill Sans eventually, and I hope to do a small Flash movie within the Nepo logo area on the front page.

Comments? I’d love to hear what you think of the site, and how it could be improved. Of course, there hasn’t been any user testing.