Does a dog need its own site?

Of course not! But...

Our two old dogs passed away and after a few months intermission we got a Basenji puppy. After following through with many emails and family & friends requests for photos I decided to build a simple MODx site.

The site features a clean design, lots of photos, blog posts and videos. I added a jQuery menu and used Ditto to keep the content organized.

The feedback has been great so far. Its been all fun this time...

http://basenji-shaun.com/

... Of course!

nice site, nice dog! Podenco-Mix?

*edit: oh, Basenji is a breed

One of my favorite books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-bye,_My_Lady

Max, the site is really nice, afraid Shaun steals the thunder

One of my favorite books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-bye,_My_Lady

hey Susan, you know this one? http://www.dolphinreef.co.il/Default.aspx?tabid=60

No, that’s nice

But Joker’s not a Basenji.

Yes Dogs deserve a website!


Lovely site. Great photos.

I wonder if the quotes and the callouts could have a higher line height there is lots of wonderful space and color and this look a little tight to me.

Quote from: smashingred at Jul 28, 2010, 02:37 PM

Yes Dogs deserve a website!


Lovely site. Great photos.

I wonder if the quotes and the callouts could have a higher line height there is lots of wonderful space and color and this look a little tight to me.

Thanks! Good eye there. Actually I am working on that and have created a couple of TV’s to fill out that area.

I had a lot of fun shooting the portrait in the top banner. I photographed Shaun against a chroma "blue screen" on our living room floor. That really made removing the background and dropping him onto the green gradient much easier. The "dog tags" in the top navigation I made with Photoshop. I then added some jQuery to each dog tag to provide the animation. I usually build just one nav-sprite image for all active and roll over states for the navigation graphic links. This was done a little differently. It took quite a bit of trial and error setting the correct heights on the rollover positioning.

I love clean simple looking sites. This particular site is very simple but there is quite a bit of MODx and CSS work going on in the background...

Quote from: smashingred at Jul 28, 2010, 02:37 PM

Lovely site. Great photos.

I concur! The first thing I noticed is how great your photos are. I don’t know if that’s your hobby or if you have a great camera or what, but regardless, the photos all look straight out of a magazine. Quite slick!

Very cool dog, by the way. He surely seems to deserve his own site.

Thanks!

Building sites is a side thing for me. I used to be a photojournalist for years (newspapers and magazines) but I mainly do more commercial work now.

All of the photos were taken with a Canon digital SLR. Most were taken with a 40-year-old Minolta Rokkor 58/1.2 lens that I have carefully converted to the Canon EOS mount. This is a wonderful lens that delivers a really nice 3D look. The old Minolta lens mount has long since been orphaned. I removed the rear mount, ground down the old retaining ring and custom fitted a Pentax M42 screw mount to Canon EOS adapter. This now allows me to mount this great optic to my Canon cameras. This 1.2 lens is a very fast, heavy chunk of glass but its my favorite lens right now...