WPGR 2.0: The Emperor of Ice Cream

Photo, short story, and poetry portfolio

Design trends
- Grid-based layout
Inspirations
- Beat poetry
- On the Road--Jack Kerouac
- Retro
Usage notes
- Hover effects over poetry/short story tiles dependent on JS/JQuery
Future work
- Gradient/"fade-out" of teaser text
- Pre-load background image
- Instagram/Wordpress integration
- Elegant small screen solution
Development
- Hand-coded HTML/CSS/JS in Notepad++
- Mozilla Firefox 16.0.1
- Windows 7
Testing
- Mozilla Firefox Web Developer tools
- Firebug 1.10.4
- Browsershots.org
Credits
- JQuery library hosted by Google
- Instagram photos courtesy W.Rollow, S.Arya
- Poetry and story excerpts by Wallace Stevens, Haruki Murakami, John Donne

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