CorkPipersClub.com Re-design
August 29th, 2006 Posted in Ireland, Irish trad music, ProgrammingI have just finished a re-design of the Cork Pipers Club website and I would appreciate feedback about the design. I’m afraid I cannot offer a Nokia wi-fi phone for your opinions, to be honest it’s been done and is so passé 
. But your feedback will be well appreciated and you can bask in the knowledge that you’re furthering the long-standing tradition of uilleann piping in Cork.
The design is loosely based on this oswd.org design. I got rid of the graphics, changed colours, modified the size of the content, added a widget on the 3rd colum for Flickr, and changed the layout and position of the menu. The menu is a funny creature as I changed it to use the fixed position attribute in CSS which is fine for Firefox and apparently some later versions of IE. If you’re looking at it in IE and the menu scrolls, well it’s not supposed to, but I’ll live with it.
The drawing in the bottom left corner comes courtesy of Anthony Ruby. I set the background colour to pick up some of the colours in this. I’m not good with colours so that’s one area that may need some tweaking.
The old version of the site will be up for another while. This was based on tables and had little colour. It also lacked content behind some of the links.
On another note, I just found a great site with a massive collection of Irish tunes – TuneDB. Also, see ABC2Win for creating staff music notation.
7 Responses to “CorkPipersClub.com Re-design”
By Pat Phelan on Aug 29, 2006
I like it Donal plus I love Anthony Ruby’s work, was at his recent exhibition @ The Launderette.
Thanks for the link.
Passé Pat
By donal on Aug 29, 2006
Thanks Pat. Yeah, his stuff is great. When I was doing Elec Eng in UCC, his pictures were up on the walls.
By Pure Cork Boy on Aug 29, 2006
Ah, it’s nice being right…
By donal on Aug 29, 2006
Oh I should have said that PCB (as he smugly points out) acted as a consultant on this project. By consultant, I mean that he told me what to do. But like all good consultees, I didn’t listen to all he had to say.
Thanks all the same.
By Craig Stuntz on Aug 29, 2006
The link is 404ing for me right now. But I maintain a big list of tune collections, mostly ITM, here:
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Instruments/Winds/Tin_Whistle/Tune_Collections/
By donal on Aug 29, 2006
That’s some list of links and tunes there Craig, thanks. The site should be working now if you want to take a look.