Pimping my brother’s site

Just a quick post, now that he has more content up there, to pimp my younger brother’s site.

About six months ago, my younger brother Jon, left his job of six years with Norwich Union with a big fat pay off. So, he’s spending it travelling the world over the next twelve months. He asked me to get a little site together for him, mainly so he can chuck some photos up there and blog about his travels so all his mates can keep up.

It’s built in Expression Engine of course over the course of a couple of days and, yes, it’s black and white. Why? Well, why not - he seems to like it!

So, if you fancy, go and have a look. If you say hi, tell him I sent you!

Comments

Great job. I like it a lot. I am really starting to dig greys and whites lately.

Kim Siever
Mon 24th Apr 2006
at 4:38 pm

How are you doing the ‘Where am I?’ graphic? Are you doing something based on dates and the itinery or does it manually change based on your brother’s input?

Also where do you get the images themselves?

I have a couple of friends who are off on long trips - might be worth doing something similar…

Andy Croll
Wed 3rd May 2006
at 8:55 am

Andy: The ‘where am I?’ graphics are displayed based on a bunch of logic statements in the template which displays the graphic based on a dropdown that my brother changes manually. So, a bit labour intensive in terms of producing all the graphics.

What images are you talking about? The maps?

Mark Boulton
Wed 3rd May 2006
at 10:09 am

Really nice website! Especially with the muddy face photo on the first page :-)

Marketingblogger
Wed 3rd May 2006
at 3:13 pm

Thanks for getting back to me…

Yeah I was talking about the map images. Did you do them by hand or did you have some sort of software to help?

I was looking at doing maps for presentations in my previous job and all I eventually found was http://www.curious-software.com/ - but this looked slightly too much for me.

Alternatively I looked at using something using http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedCountries but I wasn’t so enamoured of the quality.

So I just wondered what your solution was.

Andy Croll
Thu 4th May 2006
at 4:00 pm

I like it, very simple, and jet nice!

Marko Mihelcic
Thu 11th May 2006
at 1:24 pm

I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.

I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.

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