It's called recycling
1 September 2007, 12:46 pm. 14 Comments. Filed under Design.
I just love doing stupid things like this to make myself look stupid. I changed the colour scheme of Season's Epilogue to blue and purple. Ocean's Prologue to match it. So here we have another WordPress template.
All the coding and everything of the original design took four days, but changing the colour scheme took one night. It's just like the green-brown version of Version 16. Recycling is no longer just about the wider environment, but it saved my personal time resources. But if you know me, it's just pure laziness.
I'm not used to the blue version yet since I haven't spent as much time staring at it, but my sister likes the blue. Comments?
WordPress murdered my juice
28 August 2007, 2:56 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Design, Site-related.
The way out of a design-block is to rant about a design-block on your blog, because I just finished my first WordPress template! It was the third design I said I was on the verge of scraping, but right after the rant post I changed the colour scheme and now it's complete... After three days.
So I finally get to open my virtually empty Resources section... After two months. It's only virtually empty because I have stacks of PHP tutorials sitting in the corner of my D drive.
Coding the template for WordPress sucked the juice out of my brain and I'm waiting for it to recover in 24 hours. Perhaps because it was a first attempt, but I thought it really did have the potential of driving an inexperienced sane person nuts, let alone a somewhat insane young lady like me. I had to do several peek-a-boos in the default WordPress theme and Han's How to write your own wordpress theme. But there's always differences between one coding/tutorial and your own template so that was... trouble.
Well, I'm satisfied with the design because I actually feel like using it for my site design. I guess if you could create a pre-made design that you think is good enough for your actual site, then it should be reasonably good enough for you to offer to visitors.
I'm going to see if working on my Statistics assignment will help recover my sweet brain juice. Critiques and error reports for the template (or anything on the entire site, really) is welcome.
A snapshot of youth
25 August 2007, 8:15 pm. 17 Comments. Filed under Art, Design.
I started three designs and got stuck. Seems like I've lost my old sense of "artistic" designs and started joining in the trend of the whole "clean and simple" blog designs. Don't know whether that's a good thing or not but I'm not very good with it either. Official design block and driving me nuts. Any inspiration ideas? Here's me on the verge of scraping my latest design.
So in place of my design block, I opened up a new canvas in Photoshop and started more doodling in reminiscence of my high school days last year. I welcome my gang: Meep/Eeep from me, BoBo from Jennifer (I fail to draw the evolved version) and the r3t4Rd3d Momo from Mona.
I remember how we'd very naively sing It's a Small World to my lyrics and the junior girls would look at us with unanimous weird expressions since they had always thought we were "mature" senior students.
The bulk of our comic strips were evil acts against Mo because well... It's a pretty... r3t4Rd3d-looking goldfish.
And I just procrastinated more from studying. But today's the first day of my two-week holidays, give me a break. Now I need design inspiration, inspiration, inspiration... They're looking so plain and boring and doodling makes me blanker. Grrr.
