Fused Reality Studios | Dundee & Edinburgh Web Design & Development

To build a theme for blogging platform Tumblr was pretty easy, however I decided to extend my knowledge with this theme by incorporating CSS3 and jQuery as to maximise the user’s experience.

A Unified Experience

Before attempting to unify the look of most of the fusedreality websites, I opted to keep each website seperate and of it’s own content.  However, this ’split’ cause my visitors confusion when jumping from one to another.  So far, visitors have become more likely to visit differing sites and stay for longer as the websites have been unified.

Extending Knowledge

Before this project I had little knowledge of CSS3 and jQuery–which has changed since then. CSS, or ‘Cascading Style Sheets’ are the web’s way of stylising pages.  Their latest change to the specification now allow for many needed styles such as opacity, rounded corners and multiple background support.  While there are browsers that do not yet support the new specification, those who keep their browsers up-to-date now get a much more pleasant feel for the page.

jQuery is very different and allows browsers to modify content on the page.  I suited this tool to act to aid the style of the website, providing sliding hidden sections so users would not have to change pages abruptly for small-content changes as well as several opacity changes for linked content.

Overall I am pleased with the end result, but as always, there is room for improvement which will be implemented in later revisions.