thechrisproject photography

Last night I finished up the redesign for my website, www.thechrisproject.com. I wanted to make something that was simple and just focused on my photography. I might have taken simple to an extreme, but I think my personal sites have always been like that.

I anguished over many of the decisions: background color, font, text color, image size, etc. I got a lot of input from my girlfriend, a gal with a good eye, in my opinion. I took out all the old links to my old bands and music, although they’re still there if you know where to look. I will probably add that stuff back in later when I do the next redesign.

The most interesting thing to me about creating the site this time was that I did it all in a text editor. It’s all straight html, css, and javascript. There is no server-side anything, a stark contrast to my day job where there is no very little static client-side anything.

Oh, and you can use your arrow keys to browse through the gallery. I don’t know why every site that does serial navigation of some sort (i.e. image galleries) doesn’t do something like this.

And for today’s image, I’ll give you two versions of the same thing. This photo is called Ghost of a Printing Press and I posted it to my flickr stream a few months ago:

I had to create a print of this photograph a month or two ago so I went through the processing again from scratch and came up with what I think is a much better image. The difference is very apparent in an 8×10″ print, but it’s even fairly evident in a 500 pixel image:

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