alardus.co.uk

I was asked to construct a picture-rich craftman's site to display Alardus' full range of Intarsia wood-inlay items. The cheap end was £15 and the top end £2,500, and everything was handmade - a lovely item to present online.

The craftsman had little presentation sense, so I was given a pile of photos and leaflets and I constructed the site using these. Sorting products into groupings for web-presentation took a lot of trial-and-error.

In the end the site not only presented the items themselves, but also contained a section on the crafting process, the craftsman, old commissions, and medieval themes portrayed in the inlaid items. Giving a site general interest-value increases its online worth: people recommend the site as a good one to visit, and the word gets around.

This is an example of a 'frames' site, where (in this case) there's a fixed sidebar for navigation and a consistent top name bar, but the main part changes and scrolls up and down. (The web-page you're looking at right now contains a fixed bottom-bar and two scrolling frames, one for 'thumbs' on the left and the other for enlargements and comments pages on the right.)