Slowly Does it.. The Rebuild of HD911.com
Slowly but surely, I’m finally getting hd911.com into a place that I want it, so I can concentrate on content, empire building and possibly some world domination on the weekends. I think its always going to be a bit of a work in progress though, as I’ve got some ideas for the site that’ll turn it into more than just a ‘plain old blog‘, but that’ll take time and motivation. Next steps are on getting content into the site and filling out some of the other pages in the site, that you’ll notice link nowhere at present. A few things though:
http://hd911.com Redirecting Again
I didn’t think anyone had noticed, but I finally fixed the DNS issue I was having with hd911.com (www. was working fine as well as blackbox. and sybian. don’t you just want to know!?!). A few weeks ago while moving an A record in my DNS registrar’s amazing control panel (GoDaddy, your application and advertising/spam-fest you call a shop/checkout area are an inspiration to us all), the default web host was stuck on the old address, even though it looked right in the control panel.
After a series of emails to support , I finally talked to someone who could help, and they reset the hosts so now browsing to http://hd911.com redirects back to this page instead of the error page (you would have seen an IIS Under Construction page during this period).
The strange thing is, I’ve noticed more than just a few visitors coming in on this link (without the www.), so it must be up on a web directory somewhere that I don’t know about?!
CSS/Styling (mostly) Fixed
Before any designers/style-fascists say anything, I’m not a perfectionist, and this site is by no means perfect, but my tests in IE7/8, Safari, Firefox 3.6/3.7 and Chrome all look decent enough so I’m getting to the point with the layout/typography where I’m relatively happy. Saying that, if anyone notices any complete style vomit or things plain don’t work, comment here and I’ll get onto them right away. However, if this is being read in Internet Explorer 6, I know it looks odd, I like it that way, and if Google says “No, to IE6″ finally, then its good enough for me.
The Logo (or lack thereof)
This is something that has been bothering me, I need an idea for a logo, I’ve tried a few combinations of things that I think would look OK, like steel/boiler plated bold text, or an artist-ey cursive scribble to say, “If you weren’t reading me on the screen from half a world away, this would be written on a paper with a real feather and ink”. I can’t for the life of me think of, or design something that would look OK in that corner though…
Any ideas?
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