Nicholas Galanin is a good friend of mine from Sitka, Alaska. He designs beautiful Tlingit Art and Jewelry as well as runs HomeSkillet Records.

Galanin has been bugging me for awhile for a new site. He’s been on his own hustle and utilizes the web really well. The only problem was his last website I built (long before eleven3 came about) was only editable by me via email updates. That and the fact it was built in tables, wasn’t everything he wanted, and was just getting dated. For a while now he has been due. A few weeks back I got inspired and started designing. I’m happy with the outcome. It still needs some polish work, but I like to think if you build a good framework for a website, expanding and enhancing it is the time you spend on it, versus doing email updates.

Nick and I had many conversations about what he would LIKE to be doing with his site. Eventually we agreed a blog would be his best bet. It was a good chance for me to try out WordPress.

The site is built with valid CSS and XHTML and is powered by WordPress, my new favorite CMS/Blog. There are a lot of PNG fixes in there. It required a bit more HTML, yet it looks right cross browser, even in IE.

In the end I think Nicholas will do some really great things with the tools I handed over.

Check it out the Tlingit Art.

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