Introducing redzebraz.co.uk
1st February 2006
Following five successful years of running her own business, and nearly two years putting up with me, Emma has finally managed to get me to build her a website.
Her company red zebraz represents several innovative commercial UK fashion designers, and thanks to her new website I finally have a basic understanding of what she actually does (aside from swan around in free clothing drinking coffee and smoking my roll-ups).
Anyway, it’s not officially finished yet, but it’s validating, and if I don’t flag it up on the blog she’ll wonder why. Much like my case study for the forthcoming CSS Mastery book, it makes good use of Mr. Johansson’s transparent custom corners and borders, which work sweetly with or without JavaScript. It also features tiled flock wallpaper, which reminds me of my Grandmother’s house.
Finally, keep an eye on Emma’s Blah! It’s basically a fashion blog, but I wasn’t allowed to use the word “blog” as it’s a bit too “geeky”, says the client. Oh well. It’s a bit empty at the moment, but it only launched yesterday, so, erm.. there’s your reason.
Anyway, there you go Em, I’ve blogged it. Now, what’s for dinner, bitch?
Responses
# Ben Ward responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Ah, very nice Colly. I’m loving the colour.
According to my fashion handbook, I think I’m supposed to say it looks “daring”. But, my book may be out of date the word might have been swapped for “funkadelic”, “sleekchug” or “horse” or something.
˜I may have to keep hold on to the word sleekchug for future use now.
# Simon Collison responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Ben: All content on this site is my copyright, so I’m having sleekchug, and I probably own you too. Actually, I like horse - “Hey man, that’s well horse..” - yeah, I like that. You young ‘uns need to keep us oldies informed with all things “street”.
# Ben Ward responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Bah, outwitted again.
Now ordinarily I’d offer a supportive comment about you “not being old at all” and so forth. However, I thought about it for second and realised that you’ll be 40 before I’m 30. As such, and since you’re claiming my only contributions to the English language as your own, you can be old this time Collison.
The only genuine piece of “street” slang I can offer is “book”. Which apparently means “cool”. Something to do with text messaging. But, since I only discovered this through Stephen Fry, I think I may as well be old too. Bloody kids.
# Nathan Smith responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Ooh, I’m loving the super-subtle fade on each button in the navbar. Also love the vertical lines to set the selection apart.
# Andrew K responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Damn, that’s pretty hot :)
Would be extra cool to see a soft fur edge on the header (to match the texture), but I’m just being a picky bugger.
Did you get paid with a “Get out of jail free” card? If the g/f offers one of those, TAKE IT!
# Jamie responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Looks good mate. a couple of observations about the rounded corners though. The rounded corners at the top (the masthead image) - the left side looks more rounded than the right. I’m not sure if it’s this, the zebra lines, or last night’s wine, but I get a weird optical illusion that the site’s leaning to the right!
Also the corners for each of the page sections look really jagged to me. I’ve never used the technique you mentioned though so don’t know if it’s supposed to. FF1.5 btw.
# Simon Collison responded on 1st February 2006 with...
Jamie: No, it’s not you, or the wine - they are jagged. Onew of the unfinished jobs, and not the fault of the technique. And yes, the header corners are a bit wrong also. That’ll get fixed.
Ben: “Book”.
Andrew: Yeah, maybe a bit more fur. I’ll try that…
# Steven Woods responded on 2nd February 2006 with...
http://www.swoo.co.uk/sandbox/colly_eek.gif
Heads-up for a slight problem in IE7 Beta 2.
Also, might want to check the space between the left column and the left edge, and the right column and right edge ... they’re off a bit on some pages.
:) Nice though!
# Simon Collison responded on 2nd February 2006 with...
Steven: IE7 Beta 2. Blimey! Not looking forward to checking all our sites on that. Cheers for the info and screengrab (that issue crops up in IE 5.5/6 also). Much appreciated.
Fixes needed
- Header corners - fixed
- Smooth-off all white rounded corners - fixed
- Pixel-perfection on margins
I do get a bit extra border on the bottom of the boxes on IE, so I’m aware of that, and I’ll sort it.
# Lee Hickman responded on 2nd February 2006 with...
In the spirit of Ben Ward un-earthing new words for the fashion handbook, I would like to put forward:
Sha-rai-ooh-ken
it could be used in the following way
“My God, did you see Britney, she was looking proper sha-rai-ooh-ken”
Think Street fighter people. It’ll all make sense.
# Ben Ward responded on 2nd February 2006 with...
Lee: That’s a mouthful, but does have the brilliant benefit of giving no indication of whether it’s positive or negative. Maybe if you suggest enough new words to Colly, he’ll give mine back?
# Emma responded on 3rd February 2006 with...
Hello to all Colly’s bloggy friends - thank you all for your flattering comments about the red zebraz ‘FABULOUS daaaaling’ site…
I especially like the ‘fur’ comments from Andrew K.
# Simon Collison responded on 13th February 2006 with...
Dave: Yeah, she’s very happy. Getting lots of good feedback from her clients. It’s also bought me lots of credits at home. Yay!
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