This week I launched two websites.

First is www.cfd27.com, a silk floral store in the Chelsea district of NYC.  This site went through quite a few iterations of change in design and content.  It was my first project in delivering a site with customizable color-theme, which is a great idea considering the color palette of a floral store changes by the season.  Unlike my previous project, this one had no issue with servers because the client signed up with the hosting service that I recommended (and one that I use), hostmysite.com (see my recent rant re hosting.com).  Also to be thanked is the creator of lightbox2 Lokesh Dhakar for the nifty javascript in displaying images.  I was more than happy to donate a small sum for having used it in this project.

CFD27 Home Page

The second project, just launched today, is an amazing jazz guitarist Michael Bocian’s website:  www.michaelbocian.com.  Although I’m the least qualified person to comment on musical taste, I know great music when I hear one, so to make Michael’s website was quite a joy.  Plus, I learned a thing or two about MP3s, as well as how to collaborate closely with a creative man.

Michael Bocian's Official Website

Playing off the guitar theme, the strings light up as you hover over the menu items on the left.  I struggled to find an elegant solution to extending the strings to the bottom of the window.  It works great in Firefox, but in IE I had to use a kludge in the end.  The advantage of using well-formed HTML & CSS, as in this case, is that it works even in Safari 1.3!