Cos Band Rocks

This site is finally launched! I have been waiting a while to finish it up and then make it live. One reason is because it is a little different from other sites I have done. This is a very image intense site that in essence is like websites for similar musicians, but not quite

When Cos came to me for a website, the idea was to give it the same kind of look that similar musicians have, but the problem with the other sites was that it used frames and was not screen resolution friendly. To avoid the frames but still allow for a picture background, I used CSS’s overflow property for the main div, and set a height. That way if the content was longer, it would stay within the picture layout. This also allowed me to keep the width under 800px. With some PHP templates, frames were unnecessary.

Some of the cooler stuff that was done was the handwritten nav links with a CSS mouse over effect. No javascript there. But most of the fun stuff is on the back end. Cos wanted to update the news, shows and pictures. So, for the news and shows, I implemented word press. The news is the regular blog and the shows is a page created within word press; one that can be edited in word press. As for the pics, with flickr and some javascript, the pics on the site get updated, and all of the pics have a nice set up.

All in all, I am very happy with the way the site came out, and Cos is too! You can visit the site here. Later!