This simple, elegant blog was designed and built by 76 Creative (coded by me:¬)  for London based artist Zakeeya. It is powered by the Gallery Mangement feature of Admin 76, 76 Creative's custom Content Management System.

The Gallery Management system was originally intended for creating a series of galleries, rather than one huge one, so although being simple in appearance on the front end, the back end of this site still posed one or two challenges for me and allowed for improvements to be made to the CMS in the process.

Another thing I enjoyed about this site is doing a layout with a fluid width in CSS, most sites I have done are fixed width so it was interesting to change things up a bit.

I'm a big fan of simplistic / minimal websites where the content is the main focus.  Check it out:

www.zakeeya.com

The latest site to be powered by the new Admin76 Content Management System is www.matthewmaran.com. Matthew Maran is an award winning wildlife photographer, so his site really put the gallery management feature of Admin76 to the test.

Following the design of the original website (with a few minor changes to the layout) I implimented the Admin76 system throughout the site allowing easy management of all text and image content.

The other main addition to the site is the soundtrack. Each page plays a random background noise - birdsong, seashore, crickets etc.

Check it out: www.matthewmaran.com

This site, built for photographer Neil Stewart, is the first site 76 Creative have launched this year. Built with PHP, it features categorized thumbnail galleries, the usual biog, links and contact information, and also a moving image section with an embedded Flash Video (flv). All of the navigation for the site is done using images to create the hand written look that we were going for, it uses a javascript to give the mouseover effect for the images. For me, this is one of the best designed sites I have worked on so far, as it has a distinctive style, yet it's simple and functional.

Check it out: www.photoneil.com

I recently took a photograph of this old picture of mine, sketched over 12 years ago when I was studying art. The reflection in the glass picture frame (un-intentional) seemed to add an extra dimension to the image once photographed. Here's the result:

Shariff Miller are an artistic duo consisting of photographer Rosalind Miller and artist {{post id="zakee-shariff" text="Zakee Shariff"}}. Their work is a combination of photography and illustration. The Shariff/Miller site is built in php and features a dynamic gallery system.

Logo and layout design by Al Newman for 76 Creative

Visit the site: www.shariffmiller.com