Rustic Red Studio Website

Rustic Red Studio is a wedding videography business that I actually started with my wife a few months ago. It is a simple site that hosts a multitude of web features with a very heavy image based design.

There are a few things that I did with this site that I don't normally do with websites. The first being the inclusion of a number of transparent png files. Normally I can work around transparent png's with a handful of tricks to get the same effect, but in this case there was no way around it.

That decision along with a few other points lead me to not do a full compatibility check in Internet Explorer 6. I'm tired of supporting a dying browser, and I felt with the clients that I'll be targeting with the site, that there would be a very low percentage of people actually using IE6.

Besides those two things I'm using Embedded Media Field for the Video's so that I can run them through Views to manipulate them a number of ways. One of those ways that I always felt was lacking on wedding videography sites, was a good way to display a quick catalog of the videos. And why not use a method that people are used to and has proven to work very well. Copying the way Youtube displays video results, I was able to easily display my videos in a familiar way.

I'm a big fan of Captcha, not actually filling the form out but that it prevents spam. On this site, however, I'm not using Captcha or re-Captcha for the comments, I went with a Spam filter, that has so far, been working quite well. The comments go through a number of filters that individually rate the probability of spam. When those numbers are added up they produce a number that is compared against a number that you set to flag it as spam or not spam. The more the Spam filter filters the better the system gets.