web design

Using Photoshop's scripting support to address disconnects between art production and legacy code for a large-scale consumer-facing website, complete with some open-source code for you.

In this second post discussing the current design of the website you're on as you read this, I go more into detail about how I drew out the art assets for alvies.org and built it all to go together. Of course, by the time you're reading this, the technical details are out of date, but I probably won't write much more about that.

I hadn't done a whole lot with my eponymous website in a decade; not as if the thing gets a boatload of traffic, but as someone who makes his living and has his major hobbies all connected to the web, it was a bit awkward to have something quite so stale.

I had to recheck to see if Thumbtack was still in existence when I just re-wrote this summary, years later. It is! But I haven't used it since this original post, as the experience was off-putting enough that I haven't had much interest in going back. I should do so.