Taking Notes
quick site update 08.09 • written by Mike G.
While we’re still happy with the state of the (now not so) new website, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few tweaks that we’ve been meaning to make. Unfortunately, for the state of the site, things have been extremely busy around the office all summer and the site upgrades have been put on the back burner. Until tonight that is.
If you check out the portfolio section you’ll notice that we’ve tweaked the category navigation to make things a bit smoother and avoid unnecessary clutter on the screen. The old script we wrote simply allowed you to either open or close a section, showing the items contained in that section. Functional, sure, but if you clicked a couple sections open without closing any of them manually, then you had an unbearable list. That’s been a bothersome corner that was cut for the sake of getting the site done, but has been on the top of the fix list since launch.
The way we always imagined the navigation in our portfolio working was that when you clicked on a category, it would show only the items contained in that category. If you wanted to look at the web projects we’ve done, then you don’t need all our print and publishing work pushing it down the page. Since we launched the site we’ve been using the MooTools framework to display our work slideshow. It’s got some great built in features that achieve just this. The smooth motion is an additional effect that’s surely nice, but even without it, the functionality is exactly what we’ve wanted from the beginning. It’s a simple fix, but one that we think will add greatly to the section’s usability.
What’s the next task you ask? Bringing comments to the site, for sure.