Launched shortly after the parent site's renovation was completed, this forum has yet to develop into a full community. Keep checking it during the coming months for signs of life.
The Freak Brothers site draws together the various different strands of internet based fandom that surround the comics of the same name. Coupled with them are links to the home page of the up-coming feature, Grass Roots: The Movie, and to its substantial social network following.
The site is a mix of HTML 4.01 and CSS 3 designed to degrade gracefully on underdeveloped and backward browsers such as, for example, Mosaic 2.6 or Internet Explorer 8.
A revamp of the old site (see here) completed summer of last year, now in the process of having the studio's content added and the site's style modified to their satisfaction. The bolexbrothers are a Bristol based animation studio, perhaps most famous for 'The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb'.
As per spec., the site retains the same style, mood and broadly the same content whilst vastly simplifying navigation. It does not conform to W3C validation, but does render and function identically across all major browsers, including IE6.
This home site is, rather than a complete and practical resource, a test bed for my continued HTML and CSS learning. It betrays a general and stubornly held aesthetic preference; namely that, where ever possible, simplicity is favourable to complexity.
The emphasis, during its development from a GeoCities-a-like holding page towards something resembling a coherent design, has been on attempting to follow the latest standards. Hence the shift from generic, badly written HTML, to HTML 4.01 Transitional, to HTML 4.01 Strict, to XHTML 1.0. Sometime in the near future it'll be rewritten again in HTML 5, taking full advantage of all the new spangly elements - possibly with the consequence of failing to live up to the "simplicity is favourable to complexity" mantra.
Due to its usage of CSS, the pages may not display properly on older browsers. In particular, despite a seperate style sheet tailored to their needs, it will not display entirely correctly on Internet Explorer 6, 5 and is largely unreadable on 4. This problem is being worked on ... Sort of. Meanwhile, the text only site works as a lo-fi stand in, whilst also looking much nicer on Lynx, which is very important in this multimedia Web 2.0 age.
