Coming Soon — TheGypsyCafe.com

It is my pleasure to announce the official opening (here) of “The Gypsy Café ” — the follow-on to “The Café @ Groton Trading Co.”, represented by my first .NET web site until my clients closed up shop at the end of Februrary 2009. In its next reincarnation, with a new style and gypsy flair, the new café (physically) will be at 112 Main St., (Paugus Mall, Route 113), Pepperell, Ma.

In cyberspace, the new site will be my first opportunity to demonstrate the re-usable blueprint that I created using Microsoft's .NET technology to increase my productivity at creating one rich web site from another.

The picture to the left features the new logo (just the top part) — the harbinger of an exciting new beginning for my clients, Keith and Christina Doucette. I added a border and address/contact information to that, ostensibly for presentation (to make it more square) but also to make it more standalone.

Further details are available in the "Testimonial" that I wrote in the old web site to point the way to the new web site: TheGypsyCafe.com (officially opened June 3^rd) to encourage customers to give it a try.

DigitalMediaMagik.com Gets a Facelift

The website is not completely finished yet, but the facelift is pretty much complete so I will take the "Easter / Holy week milestone" as my cut-off point to declare the facelift complete.

• Cross-browser support: The site (and blog) now work with a very broad spectrum of popular browsers including IE (Microsoft's Internet Explorer), FireFox (Mozilla), Safari (Apple), and Chrome (Google). Up-to-date browser usage statistics peg this coverage at 97%.



• A panorama animation on DigitalMediaMagik.com gives the pages a "constant width" and showcases one of my services — making panoramas from multiple digital snapshots



• To accomodate smaller screens, there is an "X" action on the right-hand side of the panorama animation which makes it disappear and the page redraws so you can read more without having to scroll.



• The former "menu tree", on the left-hand side of all the pages, has been replaced with something much simpler. The "Community / TalkAbout" icon — an extension of that menu — was reworked to 'fit' better and to reflect the new DigitalMediaMagik.com logo.



• I elaborated the previously-empty page about my StoryBoard (video) product, celebrating a project I did for my sister's 60^th birthday.



• My "community" space — these pages — still have the same web address (blog.DigitalMediaMagik.com) but the blog has been rehosted, I got caught up wrt my backlog of articles, and I created a customized template to give the blog a much more pleasing and accessable format. For comparison, the old blog is still there… but there are no links to it ☺; the final article therein details the rehosting.



• There are a number of new "Page Elements" in the blog sidebar, including my DigitalMediaMagik.com Twitter "feed" and more About Me.