It’s been about a year since the last version of the site, so about a week ago I decided that was long enough.
New Tech
HTML5 is all the rage these days and I couldn’t resist the urge to utilize in this redesign. It’s one of my first public builds with HTML5 (everything else using it has been a side-project) and I’m actually surprised with how painless it actually was.
To get the new elements (section, header, footer) to be visible to stupid ol’ Internet Explorer, I’m using HTML5 Shiv. I started going down the route of just using Modernizer, which detects a browser’s support of various features, and serving different styles to different browsers, but I decided against it – mainly due to code bloat issues and page loading speed.
Custom Fonts
As you can tell, these headings are not a normal web-font. They’re set in Museo Slab, an awesome font from Jos Buivenga and served by TypeKit. The whole process was very easy and I highly recommend giving it a go if you’re wanting to use custom fonts.
Bye bye, IE6
This website marks the end of my support for IE6 (at least for the Shift Creative website). IE6 users will get a “lo fi” version of the site with typography styles and formatting. It still looks great, but is much more simplified.
IE6 was released in 2001. That’s three years before I graduated High School and a year before I could even drive. It’s unfortunate that it has hung on for so long. This year, though, I finally saw my IE6 stats drop below 10% and I don’t plan on spending hours and hours fixing my site so it looks perfect for 10% of my users. It’ll still look and work great, and that’s all that matters.
Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any issues!
