We’ve opened a completely redesigned Swing and the City web site today. The layout was quite a pain to get working because of transparency and non-scrolling parts. But on my last tests, it was working quite well in all of the major browsers. But if you notice any issue, please tell me (email: erich AT debian org)

I’m aware that the red-yellow border on the left doesn’t line up right. I’m waiting for fixed graphics from the designer for that. There is also a glitch with clicking the logo when scrolled just a little bit down. These are on my to-do. At some point I also want to increase the use of CSS spriting to further reduce page load times. Oh, and Internet Explorer sucks, btw.

The web site is about Swing dancing in Munich (so no tech today), and at this time only in German. At a later stage, we might add English, too.

During August we’ll also be building our own studio, “Cats Corner”, which will actually be somewhat similarly decorated. :-) Congratulations to Christine for doing all that for the Lindy Hop scene!

P.S. Bring Down IE6.com, IE6 No more.com

P.P.S. See this blog post on how it is impossible to use the CSS “clip” property in a way that both IE7 and IE8 will understand. While only one is W3C standard, Firefox just accepts both … but at least IE8 goes with the official standard now.