16 June 2010
Categorised as Design, Personal, Romance, School, Site-Related & tagged with gaming, Internet, maplestory, relationships, uni, wow.
In the last post, I said that the business card design was the first step in getting to this version 20 design. Guess what? I lied. I almost forgot that I had ever designed what I should now refer to as Appassionato Version 19.5. Indeed, this is the reason I once blamed Sheng Han for using a header background image similar to mine:
Appassionato Version 19.5 (Click above image to see the live version)
All my guy friends thought this was the best design I’ve ever came up with, totally un-Rilla style, and it’s actually the first photo manipulation I’ve done. Reasons why I didn’t go through with it:
- It looked perfect on my 1024 x 768 screen, but when I switched to a laptop with 1280 x 800 screen I realised that it was too small.
- The file size of all the images was too big for a blog.
- No one ever notices my favourite part of the design: the hanging wire aka “skip to footer” link.
Main crux of this blog post however: summary of the past year of my life.
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14 June 2010
Categorised as Design, Romance, Site-Related & tagged with Design, hiatus.
As you can see below, my last post was 3 April 2009. Meaning I’ve been such a big fail and took more than a year to come up with a new design and change my CMS from own-coded to WordPress. But that latter part was the horrible part. I had to manually transfer all the posts one by one (because I wanted to proofread them all) and eventually decided I was too tired to bother with the comments. Anyway, let me show you what design concepts I went through before deciding on this one.
Steps of getting to this design
First I made a business card design, just playing around.
Header design
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14 February 2008
Categorised as Romance & tagged with celebration, funny, love.
In case you’re wondering, I didn’t come up with that.
But oh look there are more: If Valentines Day Cards Were Honest. So if you receive or have already received a Valentines Day card that seems too sweet to be true, it is. 
Happy Valentines Day!
