RSS and PHP malarkey

Not been up to much as I've had a stinking cold all week. I was playing around with RSS feeds and PHP and manage to pull my friend Paul's latest blogger entry into my site, see here:

http://www.spiderwebdezign.com/rss-test.php

Then I pulled my flickr photostream into my site here:

http://www.spiderwebdezign.com/rss-flickr.php

The RSS feed isn't styled or anything yet, but I'm really pleased it's working and it's a great way to add dynamic content. I intend to use this quite a bit in future projects...

In case you're interested Paul is a talent illustrator and foot-fetishist (Hi Paul!), and his illustrations blog can be viewed at http://lookwhatidrawed.blogspot.com/ It will do you good!

Browsers, browsers...

Decided to take some screenshot of the new site to compare how it displays in different browsers (excluding Opera, Netscape..).

Firefox:
Firefox is XHTML/CSS standards compliant so renders correctly


Google Chrome:
As with Firefox


Safari:
Layout is similar, font slightly different


Internet Explorer:
Internet Explorer is a bastard, I don't know why people love it so! Layout & font buggered..


Bowser!:
And this is Bowser from Super Mario Bros.

OFFICIAL SITE LAUNCH - www.spiderwebdezign.com

The site is now re-designed and launched. There may be some minor tweeaks required yet, but on the whole I'm very pleased with it.

Visit www.spiderwebdezign.com

Mockups...

I've been arsing around with this site for ages, here are some of the drafts I've been tinkering with:



This is the holding page, it's not too hot but does it's job...



This was the second version I came up with, the design is a bit too busy...



This is probably the weakest of the lot, when I was trying to tweak it and reduce the clutter..

Anyway, the new design is now finalised and I'm hoping to launch the site proper in the next couple of days. Watch this space!