This site represents the latest of my numerous designs for Refined Internet – the B2C side of my services and holds the proud title of the one I’m happiest with and I feel it finally conveys the brand correctly.

Underneath the hood the site is built on Wordpress 2.7, but previously it has also been on the Website Baker platform. It started life as a full xHTML 1.1 compliant site, however with _blank throwing up errors in that doc-type and my reluctance to use Javascript hacks workarounds ended up backing down to 1.0 transitional.

One of the main aspects of this site is jQuery integration – it’s all over the place but in a useful manner with the main aspect being the banner section at the top of the page, it’s using the Slide plug-in and I’ve incorporated paging functionality. One problem I had was how to deal with visits to new pages once you’ve been presented with the banner on the homepage. The solution (rather than to create a separate very similar template) was to use some of the advanced Wordpress functions to determine if the current page is the homepage, if it isn’t then hide the banner section. Everything is still accessible by clicking the drop-down button that appears in such an instance.