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It’s been a ridiculously busy few weeks but I have a couple of site launches to show for it. First up is a small one: Locus Design. I built this one with Draught Associates, who designed it. It’s simple but elegant, XHTML/CSS/Accessible… Um, that’s it I reckon. Thanks to Matt at Draught.

The next one is a touch bigger. Milo Creative asked me to come in and redesign the Ramblers Association site in time for the Freedom to Roam act to go on the law books. The timescale was very tight, giving us about 10 days from initial client meeting to launch, and the budget was limited but I’m very pleased with the result. The home page is live (with a couple of minor problems but should be sorted soon) and the content template is being rolled out across the site at the moment. It’s been very well received internally and I have my fingers crossed for the public at large.

On a technical note… This is my first commercial implementation of Mike Davidson’s sFIR (version 2.0b) and I’m dead impressed. The content will be edited by in-house teams and sFIR has allowed me to hand it off to them safe in the knowledge that the website’s typography will match my design and the off-line material.

Anyway, cheers to Sean at the Ramblers and Argy and Petros at Milo.

Just a quick update… Mike Davidson has released version 2.0b of sFIR, which adds improved performance, better flexibility and even accessibility to the mighty script.

I used sFIR for the first time last night (I’ve been waiting for the chance to put it into a production site and it’s finally arrived) and I am very very very impressed. I had a few teething troubles with the 1.2 version I was using not passing colour values in correctly and resizing the Flash text to be just slightly too small, forcing me to hack the fla, but it sounds like these things have been addressed now. Awesome work. Simply awesome.