A New Beginning….
Welcome to Life of Bryan - as part of the redesign of my site, I’ve decided to do the fashionable thing and start a blog. Anyone who’s visited my site before will realise that this is actually a replacement for the previous Bryan’s Corner - the difference being that I may actually remember to post something here occasionally.
Several things spurred me on to redesign the site in the first place but most revolve around a wish to try and improve the standards compliance of it. I’ve tried to write in valid (X)HTML for a couple of years but even though I’d been using CSS for presentation and layout for that period also, I’d never really got to grips with making that valid too. The previous design relied on some proprietory IE elements and behaviours for it’s layout with some dodgy JavaScript to approximate the same effect in other browsers - all in all, not very clever….
Of course, the last year and a half have been something of a learning curve for me. Back in March 2003, I took on the task of (re)designing and being Webmaster for The Cat Pack. This was principally as a distraction to keep me out of the pub while on tour in Germany as well as keeping me involved with the band so I had a gig to return to. This lead to my starting TrumpetBoy.com - my web design for musicians site. Since starting that in January 2004, I’ve designed 3 sites for various friends and colleagues as well as redesigning the Cat Pack site (again!). A couple of other sites are also in the pipeline. More details can be found at the aforementioned TrumpetBoy.com.
Anyway, this redesign is pretty much done - just finishing up transferring some of the old relevant pages to the new template. It’s proving a welcome diversion from the current show I’m working on - "The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas". We’re back over in Germany at the moment, specifically in Mannheim. After another week here we make a welcome return to Vienna but I won’t bore you here with the forthcoming tour itinerary after that as you can find it in my Schedule. I’m sure I’ll be posting some touring tales in due course. Suffice to say that it’s a great show with a great bunch of guys and best of all, it’s a 15-piece big band!!!
