Breadcrumbs for Ka'anapali Dreamin'

It took me the better part of a day yesterday, but I was able to update and test all the 80+ pages of the Ka'anapali Dreamin' site yesterday with breadcrumbs. Part of the work involved was related to the 5 or 6 different page templates I have setup in Dreamweaver for the site, ranging from the simple content pages that only contain one column to the section pages that have a sub navigation menu as well as a sidebar with photos.

It wasn't as complicated as I had thought it would be, since I've been dreading having to do it for a while. Once I got some momentum, it turned out to be more daunting than anything else. That will just go to show me to think of those things up front and work them into a design earlier rather than after that fact. :)

Launch of Igloo Surfing Coming Soon

My initial hopes was to get the Igloo Surfing site up by the end of the year. Obviously that didn't happen.

I got back into the site development about three weeks ago, and didn't I didn't like the color scheme I was starting with so I re-did it. I also worked on the logo for a little and came up with something a little more elaborate than just the domain name in bubble letters.

I have the majority of the supporting text and pages ready now in Firefox, so it's just a matter of testing it out in IE 6/7 and working out the bugs there. Once that's set, the next step is to create the blog for the site (it will be a blog-site rather than a site with a blog), work the layout and style elements into the blog template, and off we go.

My latest target is getting it launched by the time we go on vacation (mid-April), so that shouldn't be too difficult.

Minor Design Updates to webnelly.com

While it's not a full site redesign, it does feel better than what it was before.

I started by moving the site navigation up to the top and be horizontal rather than vertical. I started to play around with having the logo overlap the navigation a little, which led me into doing absolute positioning in CSS (of which I hadn't tried out very much). The end result took some tweaking, but I'm happy for now.

Also, to help fill out the horizontal navigation, I added two more sections that I'm expanding on. The first is Projects, which is going to feature details of the various projects I've worked on in my professional (corporate) career. This will be set up to contrast on the technologies side with what's listed in the Portfolio section, which features the personal sites I have worked on in my spare time.

The second new section I'm working on is the Technology section. This section will feature many of the technologies I use in my personal sites (to start) and provide some insight and examples of how I implemented them. They're not targeted to be full blown tutorials or anything like that (as if I have that kind of time), rather more of just an overview and inspiration for anyone else interested to want to learn more.

These sections look a little (or a lot) empty right now, and will take some time and commitment for me to get around to updating it all, but I'll get to most of it eventually.

If you're reading this, you can probably tell I updated the look and feel of the blog to match the new changes to the site design as well. If it's also your first time reading here, you probably didn't notice how blank it was before. :)

That's where I'm at with updating this site for now, short of adding all that content to the new sections. Time to spend my efforts elsewhere.