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Cavalier fashion

I just completed work on a new site for the Great Torrington Cavaliers. The most fun for me was in making that banner. I had a load of pictures to choose from and it was a matter of picking out the strongest images and mashing them together. A couple of early tries had to be scrapped, though: first when I chose one chap who looked very much the part yet who turned out not actually to be a member, then when the chairman decided that the image I’d given them was not sufficiently youthful and wanted the “young cavaliers” to appear.

Getting those four faces turned out to be harder than you might imagine, as two of the young lads seemed to have a gift for having their faces partly obscured in photographs. In the end we had to get new pictures taken specially for the banner. But the end result seems quite pleasing, I think.

The site itself uses Drupal, which is well suited to the needs of organisations like this who have regular events they want to publicise. Previously they were using Frontpage to run the site, and experiencing the usual headaches due to the lack of separation between presentation and content. Drupal makes it so much easier to publish new content and manage it, and I notice already that there’s much more about upcoming events on the new site than the old one, so it looks like it’s working.