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.

The Digital Art gallery has seen the biggest overhaul, and the Paintings section has seen a small tweak. Though not all pieces are using what will become the standard popup window format.

In other news, comments are disabled until I’m able to implement a rather annoying captcha thing to prevent the myriad of spam. Unfortunately, I was planning on adding a couple of new paintings, but I have run out of time.

I’m currently in the process of working on designs for two very awesome friends of mine from the sunny state of Queensland. So, as it is, the update to this website is more or less stalled. I’ll work on a few pages here and there, but these designs come first. After all, my own pet projects have no definable deadline!

ETA: As soon as possible.