Well, it's nine months ago that I posted details of the website that my son and I were creating in BlueVoda. We had some very positive feedback for which we were extremely grateful. It has been a steep learning curve for us, but also great fun as we found BlueVoda so user-friendly, and a delight to use.
Our site has now developed into something fairly substantial, with well over a hundred pages, all accessed from an iframe menu of names. The benefits of constructing the site in this way are obvious, as now we only need to add any new names just once in the menu and it then appears on every other page.
The Home page has also been redone - and it is easy to make any changes (eg 'latest addition', links to other sites etc.) that we want.
Although it is a 'personal' site, we have tried to make it look 'professional' with things like favicons just adding a finishing touch.
The site remains ongoing (quite a few more celebrities still to do!) although we think it now has a 'finished website' look. All the many links seem to work, and the pages load up pretty quickly most of the time. Some pages are quite simple in layout, but others are more complex as we played about with lots of different pieces of text and images (eg pages like Ron Perlman and Charlie Higson were a nice 'challenge'!)
Ciaran and I would again welcome your comments, as we are looking to try and make the website even better. We would like reassurance that the site works well in different browsers and resolutions (as we have only seen it in Internet Explorer), and that we haven't made any glaring mistakes.
Please log on and let us know what you think. Many thanks!
www.ciaranbrown.com