Now what?

Time to double check everything. Also to figure out this weblog thing that's also due....

404 Page!!

Check out our 404 page. It's not exactly how I imagined but pretty damn close. And still pretty awesome.

http://cdleyva.myweb.usf.edu/pages/404.html

99% Done

So basically everything is done and finessed.
To accommodate for smaller monitors/resolutions we pulled the content up and added top navigation.

We just need to do little things like adding in the biography that he is writing for himself. Favicon icon. Meta tags for google. That's about it as far as I recall.

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We're Online! (but not done)

So basically we are very close to completing the site. Most of the hard stuff is out of the way. Currently we are stuck on our About slider gallery. We found a cool one... it doesn't want to work. You know how it goes. For now you can see the home page and more importantly how the Fine Art gallery looks. Basically the Tattoo gallery will look exactly the same but with tattoos! Slider gallery of the shop on the About page and contact info and a map on the Contact page. Use your imagination!

Other Pages

Here is what we are thinking the other pages will look like. Simple. Clean. All about the gallery and it's images. The first is an example of how the Fine Art and Tattoo gallery will look - lightbox. The second is an example of how the About page will look. Since the About page isn't necessarily about the images we are using a more fancy slider gallery.

Almost Final Mock Up

So here are 2 mock ups of the home page that (unlike the proposal which were ideas) is very close to being ready to be done and ready for splicing and coding etc.
TO BE CLEAR: the lit sign, "tattoos," is not going to be lit - they will all be mouseover sprites and stay lit when on the page. The sign at the top leads back to the home page. I just have the one sign lit up so you can see what the navigation hover / active state is. Nothing on the homepage will be lit up initially unless moused over or clicked   :)

I would like some critique. Specifically on the treatment of "not so evil" and "tattoos"... I think we will have Don custom write out tattoos for us instead of using a font offline.... not sure...

Photoshoot

For the about [the shop] page and fine art gallery page of the site we took photos of the shop and his artwork hanging in it. Since photos of his shop, tattoos, and his paintings are important we wanted to make sure we got good pictures. Here is a nice picture of the shop and his work hanging up. Notice the neon sign he has just like his business card and similar to what we are doing on his shop just REAL.