A simple but bold photography portfolio site designed using WordPress 3.0 and the ‘widescreen’ theme from Graph Paper Press’

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Wight Landscape Photos. Screenshot showing use of new google fonts., originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing.

Another of my micro-sites updated with the new Google fonts (and a new front page image which you can find in my vertorama / panorama set on flickr).

This is the new homepage for http://www.wight-landscapes.co.uk/ an SEO micro-site dedicated to landscape photos of the Isle of Wight.

The reason for the update is that you can now use the new google fonts api to display different typefaces with html/css rather than using graphic files. It gets round the limitation of only be able to use the same old boring web fonts that we’ve had to use for the last 15 years.

Here i’m using ‘Molengo’ for the main header, navigation & body text, and ‘Josefin’ for the strap-line.

You’ll also notice one of the new FACEBOOK LIKE buttons that i’ve just added so that you share the love! As well as a link to my twitter and facebook pages if you want to become friends on those platforms.

Wight Lifestyle Photos. Screenshot showing use of new google fonts., originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing.

Wight Lifestyle Photos. Screenshot showing use of new google fonts.

This is the new homepage for http://www.wight-life.co.uk/ a micro-site i’ve made for SEO purposes dedicated to photos of lifestyle, sport & leisure from the Isle of Wight.

It’s the first site where i’m trying out the new google fonts api. It sounds a bit nerdy and clever, but its not very complicated really, and it finally gets over the limitation of only be able to use the same old boring web fonts that we’ve had for the last 15 years. Here i’m using ‘Cantarell’ for the main header, navigation & body text, and ‘Reenie Beanie’ for the strap-line.

The choice of new typefaces isn’t massive (yet), and i’ve certainly not done anything groundbreaking here, this was just an exercise for me to test it out, and see how it works across all the various browsers and platforms out there. So if you’re seeing something vastly different to this screenshot, perhaps you could let me know?

It also has one of the new Facebook Like buttons in the page, inserted using the javascript method (instead of iframe), and it seems to work all the time on safari, chrome and firefox, and only most of the time on internet explorer. Any feedback on if that works for you would also be gratefully received.

Screenshot update jasonswain.co.uk May 2010 (lake district gallery), originally uploaded by s0ulsurfing.

Screenshot update for jasonswain.co.uk May 2010 (lake district gallery)

The new main image is from the Castlerigg Stone Circle, just outside of Keswick in the lake district.

No major changes to the site layout or design to report, but there is a new gallery and slideshow of images from the lakes.

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Lottery funded by the West Wight Landscape Partnership, the site aims to document and celebrate 50 years of surfing on the Isle of Wight, providing an online search-able archive of video, photography and stories from the characters involved in the sport. Designed around a simple content management system (CMS) allowing for quick and easy site updates by the project authors.

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A show-case of work from the Isle of Wight based visual artist & photographer Liz Cooke.

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•    Design / Photoshop
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•    Hosting & domain name management
•    Website statistics
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