This website was created
using Umbraco (v4.7.0) and Gimp (for the images) - the previous
site was running on Joomla (quite an old version) and I've also set
sites up with Wordpress and done development on Sitecore and I have
to say Umbraco is one of the nicest CMSs I've had to deal with so
far.
I've used some web fonts provided by the Google Web Font
API.
Currently I'm tinkering with the design using the xslt stuff -
which I'm new to so it's taking me a bit of time to pick it up. I
love the fact that I've got most of the site up and running with
very little actual dev work. Next I'm going to add some subtle but
pretty UI effects with jQuery and then it just needs content!
If you notice a problem with the site - or there's some
technique or improvement you think I could make - please feel free
to email me at owen@owenniblock.com
I've tried to keep the layouts in different browsers as similar
as possible - there are two differences I know of at the
moment:
1. On IE not all of the panels are transparent - mainly because
it seems to cause display issues with the Google Font stuff. Maybe
IE9 won't suffer the same issue, in which case I'll add the
transparency back in for IE9 and onwards - not had time to test it
yet though!
2. On IE the category pages (Comedian | Geek | Weirdo) don't
have rounded edges. Basically because I *like* the border-radius
CSS and so wanted to use it.
Also - thanks to sixrevisions for the tutorial on sliding
display using jQuery (here)