The website of Tate Johnson
"Welcome to tatey.com, the transmission belt for my random (and sometimes communist) propaganda. Please, grab a beer and poke around, you may even find something interesting – Cheers, Tate"
A website is reborn
Posted in This Site on Friday, 2nd June 2006
It has been over a month since this website was last updated. I could attempt to justify the lack of content because of Uni, family commitments or some other equally lame excuse, but at the end of the day it was my laziness that got the better of me. I’d rather play Day of Defeat: Source or visit mates more than anything else.
Good news is that I’ve been secretly working on a site relaunch. I eventually came to realise that the XHTML/CSS for tatey.com was messy and not as “correct” as it could have been. As a result, I rewrote and re-sliced the entire website from scratch. There are some minor visual improvements, but mostly stuff under the hood. Furthermore, I’ve cleaned up the directories and more or less tided everything up.
The gallery, which has previously caused me much heartache has finally been upgraded to “Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery” and successfully integrated into the website itself. After recommendations from Ashley Kyd, I’ve completely templated tatey.com with PHP Mesh. It has sure made updating content substantially easier.
On a final note, the inspiration for the entire relaunch came from both Ashley and Scott who recently redesigned their websites. In addition, Adrian has now launched his own website and Flora has also received a facelift.
June 4th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
The font is funky but also not too easy on the eyes — maybe if you stepped it up a point or two, things would be perfect.
June 7th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I actually found that the this font “Bitstream Vera Sans” renders very nicely and is far eaiser to read than say Verdana or Trebuchet MS. More importantly, it’s a free font. I was concerned with it’s rendering under Firefox in Windows and it looked fine to me. IE should default to Verdana in Windows. You’ll have to provide me with a screenshot so I can glance at it’s rendering. If it’s that bad, I’ll have to figure something out, or possibly increase it’s size as you suggested.