MegsPhotography.net, a study in absolute positioning.

Like I said, this blog will occasionally get nerdy. Tonight I wanted to talk about the new homepage redesign for www.megsphotography.net. Originally the website and domain were setup by our friends at KSnarf and since then, the only additions I've had time to do is adding a quick gallery exported directly from Lightroom to show off some work. Much is in the work in terms of getting the business up an running but we figured it was time to give the site a quick makeover. So last night, I dusted of Visual Studio and cranked out a new homepage for the site. And IMHO, I think it turned out very nice, ascetically and technically. Very simple, clean and very light weight. The homepage only has 5 requests for a total of 205KB (197 KB of that is the homepage image). In comparison, the homepage markup alone on the new site we've been developing at work is 160 KB. Oh, and it's compliant in all browsers (even IE6) :D. Even the transparent .PNG file that is the site name. Next step is to design the interior page wrappers to that we can have an actual "contact" and "about" page.