Since I started the revision of the site by ditching the personal blog, complete changing the aesthetic and revising the gallery – I had two major concerns, popup blockers, and javascript.

Initially, clicking on a gallery image would have resulted in a popup window with a larger image and some back story. This was all going to be done with HTML. There was, however, a major problem with going down the HTML path for popup windows. It’s messy, incredibly fucking messy. You end up with an individual HTML file for each piece of artwork, and getting it all sorted with Wordpress leaves a trail of file upon file.

So, grudgingly, I had to turn to Javascript. The problem being that there’s quite a large percentage of people who don’t use Javascript, but I was hoping to swing a simple command that triggers a new window to open on the basis that it wasn’t a seperate and complex Javascript file. Unfortunately as I found out today, if Javascript isn’t installed/enabled even a simple ‘onclick open.window’ command may not work.

Long story cut short, I need to think of a complete redesign in terms of how the gallery works while keeping to my ideal of barebones (HTML and CSS, no Javascript or Flash). With the Visual Arts course in progress, I have no idea how long it will take to figure out a way to do this, let alone getting up to writing the code and testing (though the inability to test on various setups was a major problem).

My thanks go to Marije for helping me out with this. And you should definitely check out her artwork on Flickr.