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This is Aq10, the 10th design for Aquarionics since… well, since I started numbering them. It was designed with the following ideals in mind:

  1. It should look nice
  2. It should have somewhere I can muck around with for temporal-designs
  3. It should be cleaner than the old design
  4. It should validate
  1. It should display the content first.

    Of which I have failed number 4, and suceeded with the rest to my satisfaction.

    1 – It should look nice

    Well, I like it.

    2 – Temporal Designs

    The banner at the top and the clean stylesheet means I can do christmas, birthday, easter, spring, summer, autumn, winter, solstice and sunrise designs at will.

    3 – Clean

    The old design put too much on the front page, which I’ve fixed.

    4 – Validate

    One of the problems (see below) is the lack of navigation near the top, so I quickly put a way to always go to the front page by making the banner a link, which – since divs cannot be in anchors – isn’t valid HTML4. I will probably either turn the banner to an anchor (from a div) or just leave it invalid until I get better navigation in place.

    5 – Content Is King

    The structure of the HTML document is as follows:

    • header
    • content
    • navigation
    • page navigation (right)
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