{"id":932,"date":"2010-01-26T17:53:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=932"},"modified":"2010-01-26T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:57:48","slug":"festival-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2010\/01\/26\/festival-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Chairs – a new project, (almost) completed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I rarely write about my freelance work, but I’d like to mention one of my latest projects — Festival Chairs<\/strong> (screenshot<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday the new (redesigned) version of the website (in Dutch language) went “live”:
\nwww.festivalchairs.nl<\/a><\/strong> …and soon I hope to complete the English and French versions.<\/p>\n

For the first time I launch a website, which uses the new HTML5 standard. Actually, all pages validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict, but at the last moment I decided to change the doctype and… they validated perfectly as HTML5! I did not use some of the new tags, such as <header>, <nav>, <footer><\/code> — I think it’s too early, because no version of IE (up to 8) does not support HTML5… So I actually wrote XHTML 1.0 Strict code, and then validated it both as XHTML 1.0 Strict and (later) as HTML5 ;)<\/p>\n

The graphic design is made by www.digitalideas.nl<\/a>. I created and optimized almost all of the code — HTML, CSS, JS and implementation of jQuery plugins, PHP, also editing and optimization of the original PSD files with Adobe Fireworks and export of the individual images\/backgrounds in various formats… I think the final HTML code is quite beautiful (not that someone will look at the HTML\/CSS, besides me;) …but the important thing is that it works pretty well — I tried to create as semantic and exact code as possible.<\/p>\n

The website should look pretty organized even without CSS support. I also made some tests, how it will look with images disabled (but CSS enabled) — almost all of the content and navigation remain accessible, with a couple of minor exceptions. Without JavaScript everything should work well, too.<\/p>\n

Before launching the site, I made sure to make a lot of tests in the following browsers: Firefox 3.5<\/del> 3.6, IE 8, IE 7, Opera 10, Safari 4, Chrome 3<\/del> 4, Safari 4; and in IE6, too (in IE6 almost everything works and looks OK, except for some GIFs which replaced the PNG32 alpha backgrounds in a few places).<\/p>\n

I am quite happy with this project and the final results. Unfortunately (partially because of the strive for perfection from my part, as a coder and Web designer) the project needed much more time than initially planned, so I’ll have to be more exact next time, when I make estimates.<\/p>\n

When I am ready with the EN\/FR versions, I am not yet sure, what I will do next… maybe take some rest?<\/p>\n

PS Forgot to tell that the clients (up to now) are quite happy with my CSS\/XHTML expert work… ;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rarely write about my freelance work, but I’d like to mention one of my latest projects — Festival Chairs (screenshot). Last Wednesday the new (redesigned) version of the website (in Dutch language) went “live”: www.festivalchairs.nl …and soon I hope to complete the English and French versions. For the first time I launch a website,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}