Rebranding of the Facio Design website has been completed, so take a look. A lot of time was taken to make sure it was W3C compliant, both XHTML and CSS. I’m quite happy with the amount of colour involved, although I may add some gradients on the background to make it a little more interesting.

Drop me a comment and let me know what you think. Work continues on my other personal sites, including www.firstandgoalnews.com

Right, this is the first post on my blog, so lets make it a good one.

As this blog is being launched in conjunction with my new freelance design site, Facio Design, I’m going to concentrate on how this was created and eventually coded.

The inspiration for the site came initially from my creative influences which are predominantly nature orientated. My newly designed logo was also influential and for continuity the typography is used throughout the site.

Using png’s a lot, I almost always have to use conditional comments to get everything to work in ie6, but this time i used a conditional comment to load an alternate stylesheet:

<!–[if lt IE 7]>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”your-stylesheet-for-ie6.css” />
<![endif]–>

People who still use ie6 now get a site which looks good, but if they had ie7 or better still Firefox, would ook just that little bit prettier, and whilst I’m on the subject… Please, everyone, if you haven’t got Firefox, get it here:

It’s free and so much better and safer than Internet Explorer and you can get excellent add-ons too