Folio: Karuna
- Type
- Website
- Date
- August 2007
- Agency
- Electric Putty
- Skills
- XHTML & CSS
- Link
- www.karuna.org
The Karuna organisation is a Buddhist charity working with marginalised communities in South Asia. I was asked to do the front-end build work for their new website by the Brighton based agency, Electric Putty.
This was a reasonably straight forward build using three main templates. Designed to fit in a display of at least 1024 x 768, the challenge was to make sure that the site was still usable at 800 x 600. Originally, the layout was fixed and horizontal scroll bars were introduced at resolutions below 1024. The client was not happy with this, so I had to make a liquid layout that would work at smaller resolutions.
Eventually, I settled on an intermediate solution using percentage based sizing on columns and images that allows elements to resize relative to the browser window. However, with the introduction of a wide Flash banner after the HTML was produced, the effect is somewhat diminished.
This was my first project after starting freelance working in August 2007 and it was lovely to receive the following feedback from Malcolm at Electric Putty: “Thanks for the great work you did on the Karuna website. The client is thrilled with the site and your HTML is a big part of that… Solid HTML is the foundation of all great websites and you really understand the medium.”