Well, it’s finally done 
This is my first “big” EE site” and a one man job from start to finish (including the new logo which was just a mockup but which the people at read’s like so much they decided to keep it).
The people at Read’s wanted a complete makeover of their old site and the added ability to add news items, recipes etc.. oh yeah and all this in 3 languages!
The entire site should validate as XHTML strict (barring the odd niggle here and there) and CSS2.1.
The site was fully functional before any stylesheets were added so a lot of the CSS design was done live on the server.
I really got to know EE a lot better while doing this project and it really is a most flexible system; the templates and CSS files changed a lot before the final version and using the embeds made implementing site-wide changes a breeze.
As with any website in the end it’s all about compromise, part of the brief was that the site should work in IE Mac so that excluded a few things I could have done differently. At times Interner Explorer (a browser I’ve truly come to hate during this project) seemed bent on destroying on what is a very basic design after all.
I want to give a big thank you to all the people who responded to this initial post: Sue, Markus and Pixelated if we ever meet the drinks are on me
(d’oh almost forgot the link)
