LightScapeDesigns.com Launch!
Hey, there! Today is a monumental day for LightScape Designs. The design for the website has exited development and moved on to it’s beta launch! It’s been a long road, but I think this site will have quite a bit to offer not only our clients and followers, but to the web design community. Now down to business.
First order of business: we’re gonna need authors. In order to keep the design blog interesting, we’re gonna need designers, coders, and just people with an interest in design to write articles for the blog. I can’t do it all, you know. If you are interested, get in touch with me through the contact page, and tell me a little about yourself. If you are chosen, I’ll get back to you and set up your account.
That’s enough business for now. Now to the fun stuff. I thought since today is the launch date for the site, I could give you some details of what went into this accomplishment. First off, here’s a list of the fine open source materials we are using on LightScapeDesigns.com.
The Starkers WordPress Theme by Elliot Jay Stocks is a wonderful way to get all the styles that come with wordpress out of the way before you get started coding your site. Once activated, the Starkers theme removes every bit (and I mean EVERY bit) of styling from your WordPress installation, so you can start from scratch.
The Sliding Boxes and Captions Jquery Plugin by Sam Dunn is pretty outstanding. It is actually in use in two areas of this site. It was used for the portfolio page, but it was also adapted for use in the sharing bar at the bottom of blog posts! Versatility, indeed!
The Animated Collapsing Div Plugin available at Dynamic Drive is in use in several places on this site. It is highly customizable, not to mention extremely useful. It’s a great sort of catch-all solution for animating a div on a click action.
Colorbox by Color Powered is one of my favorite Jquery plugins used on this site. Colorbox is one of the more versatile and easily customizable lightbox-like plugins I have ever used. You can display everything from pictures and pdf files to external websites and inline html. If you are looking for a lightbox-like plugin with a wide variety of uses, I would suggest Colorbox.
There are definately more open source materials and lots more details about the building of this site to come in the next few posts. Hang in there. If there’s something you like on the site, we’ll likely get to it, along with many of our other favorite things about the art of design, and other projects we are working on. Stay tuned!
About Brandon
Brandon is the owner and lead designer for LightScape Designs. He is currently attending Austin Community College for his degree in Interactive Design.
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