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.

Igloo Surfing - November Progress

Obviously, the site isn't up yet, so all of the progress and updates are related to the initial launch of the site. At the moment, I pretty happy with the logo that I have designed and much of the main page layout. This isn't going to be an overly complex site like some of my other works, more of just a playground and photo sharing area. As with the Ciolinos site redesign, I am trying to push my limits of what I am capable of in regards to graphic design, and again not predicting that this will be the greatest thing since Google Maps, but something I want to be proud of.

For the remainder of this month, I'm hoping to finalize the main page layout for the site, slice up the comp and generate the core HTML and CSS, and get the foundation pages ready to go on a testing site. After that, it's gathering photos and planning out the mechanics of the site, and if it's up by the end of the year, I'll be happy.