A website for rare old cars

[jon404]

Finished a rare-car website today, http://concourscoaches.com, for a client down in La Jolla. If you are curious about the world of concours d'elegance vehicles, take a look.

With no offense to Xara, I decided to use old Front Page 2000 to burp out VERY basic HTML code. Wanted to keep it simple, no positioned layers, no Javascript or PHP or whatever. Customers all over the world with God knows what browsers or devices. But -- and this is important -- I used Xara Designer Pro extensively for fast photo cropping and editing, here and there for photo compositing, and for simple graphics. Xara is so fast and easy to use... and, for this project, there wasn't anything I couldn't have done in less expensive Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. It is one thing to do art for fun, for a hobby. But when you are doing a project for money, and you have a tight deadline, you'd better use art software like Xara products ... very fast, bulletproof, very easy to use... and none of that Creative Cloud noxious gas.


Am happy with the result. Wish I could speed up Google's indexing the site -- anybody know a way to fasttrack that? I think this is the last website I will ever make. Too many little things to remember. I want to evolve into something like Picasso, happily getting paid for signing sketches others made, laughing all the way to the bank...