Adam Kuban: Kublog

Slapped together the seed of a website for a friend yesterday. He wants a portfolio site for his artwork. I was suprised how little time it took—only two hours of futzing. I found a workable photoblog template for WordPress, hacked it a bit to change it from black and gray to white and gray, and uploaded some of his work to it to see how it would look. Not bad, I might say. I actually like this design more than Kublog here.

The boxes on the main page are created by using the WordPress built-in custom fields option and are pulling in the thumbnail version of the artwork. Additionally, I hacked the template to pull in only images from category “featured art,” so that my friend can control which work appears there—an option he mentioned wanting on this site.

What he did want was a way to minimize scrolling if not eliminate it at all, but that ain’t gonna happen. The only way I can fit a grid of images on the main page—and keep individual artwork pages from scrolling—would be to make thumbnails and main images small enough to fit entirely onscreen for a laptop user (the smallest anticipated screen).

I think this, with a few more tweaks, is a fairly stylish solution, if I do say so myself.