Dom Mee website redesign

Maritime explorer and all-round action man Dom Mee’s web site was badly in need of a face lift and some under-the-hood streamlining. The existing site was built with a tables-based layout and although it looked okay on the surface it had various problems connected with accessibility and text resizing.

Two years before, Dom had tried to cross the north Atlantic in a tiny boat pulled by kites (yes, I did say kites) and after being badly walloped by several major hurricanes he unfortunately had to be rescued. The boat was lost. Now it had washed up on the coast of Ireland, complete with still-salvageable (and completely harrowing) digital footage from the last few hours of the doomed expedition. The video had been a surprise hit on YouTube and as a result Dom was about to be featured on CNN.

Accordingly, he was anticipating a heavy increase in site traffic, and it made sense to try and get the site rebuilt in time to coincide with the TV appearance. With only three days notice, Shark Attack pulled out all the stops and redesigned the site, rebuilding it to web standards and getting the new version online in time for the CNN interview transmission.

Dom has been maintaining a Typepad-based blog in recent years but it was hosted at a different address to his main website. When Shark Attack redesigned his site we did so with the specific intention that the layout could be converted into a database-driven blog site, allowing Dom to host all of his amazing information from a single domain. There was no time to go that extra mile in the short period leading up to the interview transmission, but with that extremely tight deadline now out of the way, we are currently looking toward converting Dom’s site into a fully dynamic blog-based environment.

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