What I did on my vacation

I’ve (mostly) been taking a break from work this week, hanging round the house and relaxing while my wife’s away on a school field-trip. I say “mostly” because a few work things managed to get past my mental firewall. Email’s deadly that way.

One thing I did that was almost work-like but was actually more like play, was to put together a website for a group of Buddhists I’ve visited a few times up in Portland, Maine. They have a small center called Nagaloka, and the group’s main leader, Kathleen, had tried constructing a site using Yahoo’s site builder. Kathleen had never done anything like this before and although she put a lot of effort into the design Yahoo’s sitebuilder leaves much to be desired and had created some very messy code, so I volunteered to see if I could come up with something a little slicker.

I’m pleased with the result. In fact I think I like it more than any other site I’ve designed (I’m not a designer, by the way — I just dabble). It’s best viewed in Firefox. Internet Explorer can’t handle the transparent effect that you’ll see in the main text area on each page. Firefox is in many, many ways a superior browser to IE, and if you haven’t tried it out I’d suggest you give it a go. It’s free!

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