Lynton photo gallery

I finally put together a photo website of the piccies we took during our break in Lynton: www.clearbreezedesign.com/lynton.
I optimised the photographs and created some crops for thumbnails. The site is split into four categories: coastal, moorland, woodland and river. This was to emphasise the fact that such diverse landscapes can be found in one area.

The site was built in XHTML and CSS with a little, very basic javascript to perform the image swaps. The mouseover effect with the thumbnails was created by styling the a:hover pseudo class to hide the drop shadow background image and to adjust the padding. This creates an animated effect without drawing on any dhtml. Although a little tricky, it wasn't actually too hard to do and has certainly made me keen to experiment with this further.

I hope people enjoy the snaps!

Lynton and Lynmouth

Just come back from a brief but lovely trip to Lynton, Nort Devon. I'd stayed at Woolacombe as a child and have memories of the lovely beach there, but haven't visited Lynton before. It was better than I hoped. A really nice mix of landscape. Right at the North tip of Exmoor, you get the atmosphere and ruggedness of the moors, but have the added bonus of being right on the coast. The cliffs drop dramatically to the sea. Goats teater on the edge of rocks above you as you meander along the coastal path. Really beautiful and a photographer's dream.

Lynton and Lynmouth are pleasant towns, perfectly situated for walking. We stayed at St. Vincent Hotel, Lynton, which was perfect for our stay. Its also a small restaurant and the meal we had there was fantastic. The best meal I'd had in ages and very reasonably priced. Well worth booking.

Hope to put together a photo site of our trip so will post a link to that when completed.

Blogstyle

Well, as you can see, had a bash at styling this blogsite. Nothing fancy, quite basic, but good fun. I created the little spanner, flowers and sphere devices in illustrator, then popped them into Photoshop to create the banner and graphics. Rest of the changes have been made via the stylesheet (with just a tiny tweak to the code!) I still have some work to do on it - notably, ensuring the right hand column runs the length of the page and creating more white space between each post, but hopefully will get round to that eventually. All very pink and purple and girlie, but nice to do something completely differet from the sites I work on day to day.