Chip & Drifty site launches!
Saturday October 22, 2005 at 4:33 pm | Filed under General
The new Chip & Drifty site is live! For those of you not in the know, Chip & Drifty is my buddy Tim’s band and we’ve completed the web site for them.
ChipandDrifty.com is actually built on the Wordpress playform, but mangled enough so we’re just utilizing the Wordpress core news posting and commenting system. I built a similar site with MovableType back in the day (Movie Club) and overall I’m pretty pleased with how it all came together. With every new project I learned a bunch on this one. This is the first time I worked with FLV (Flash Video) which we wanted to use to eliminate the need for any video plug-in on the site. Flash is all you need at ChipandDrifty.com, and you really don’t need much of it! I learned more CSS too, of course, as all formatting is done via CSS. By the way, I worship the Firefox Dev Toolbar, as it was a lifesaver in many CSS cross-browser troubleshooting. Getting CSS-based sites to look good on IE on a Windows machine is not easy.
This thing has kept me busy on my nights and weekends for just over a month so you really should go visit. Tim would also appreciate it if you buy the album. I’m not kidding. Did I mention that besides being my friend and all that, the band is actually really great? Go. Visit. Buy.