As mentioned in the previous post, the Experiments Section now has a background. It’s meant to accommodate the widest available screen (according to Wikipedia), which is 2560 x 2048. I don’t have that large of a monitor, but it’s one of those things where you have to expect as many possible user experience scenarios as you can.
Here’s a screen shot of a part of the background image, but zoom out on the actual page or select the View Background Image function of your browser to see the entire image.
The background image is a composition of the raw photographs I took two years ago at Putah Creek at UC Davis. They were meant to be photomerged into a seamless image, but I thought it would be appropriate to show them this way for the Experiments section to represent the emphasis on the process rather than the result in creative experiments.
I also started working on the Photo page of the Experiments Section. Here’s a cropped screenshot.
The idea with this section’s design is that the only thing you see on the page is images and no text. The text only appears when your cursor hovers over the transparency that has that text in it.
Not sure about the level of accessibility here, but the Experiments section is the only section on my site that is not limited by accessibility concerns, even though I try to accommodate accessibility needs when convenient. The text-less states are controlled by CSS anyway, so if someone visits the site without CSS, it will read it perfectly fine.
The page is also meant to be wider than your browser window. Unless you turn off JavaScript, you’re always going to have a wider page along a horizontal scrollbar. With this being a page about images, the idea is to fit more images on each row with the space that was taken up by the navigation on the left.
Flush.
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