Client Project Update 2

As part of the design, I was going to allow the owners of the Stonebridge farm to post tweets as news updates that would feature on the homepage. So far it looks like this:

The way this tweet is made, is that the top section (anything above the text), is a static image placed on the page using css and html. The same applies for everything below the text, as that is another section of the speech bubble that has been split up. The section in the middle is a 1pixel wide slice of the PNG file I made in photoshop, that has been assigned as a background-image in css, and then repeated within a wrapper defined in the stylesheet to stop the repeating image over-flowing.

The image above is a direct screenshot from firefox. As you can see, I have a gap between the top section and the repeating middle section. Which i need to get fixed. I've also decided to change the overall layout of the chosen design, purely because I hadn't thought through what the website would look like to users with a resolution bigger than 1024x768, which is the optimal resolution to view the website with.

Instead of the dirt background stretching as far as the page is wide, everything will be set in a box and the dirt background will be cut off, a long with the previously extending navigation bar and footer. This means I will have to chose an appropriate colour for the background, as I would like it so that the contents background isn't the same as the site's background.

Currently downloading Adobe Flash, and will proceed with producing the imageviewers and map once it's installed. I also need to gather content, such as taking photo's and statements from people who work at the farm, this can be done when I am back in Nottingham.