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Loyalty is difficult when it’s ugly!

Categorised as Design, Site-Related & tagged with blog, Design, law, uni, wow.

I’m currently going through the busiest time of my semester so far:

1. 1500-word essay.
2. Legal Research assignment.
3. Moot (mock case trial).
4. 3000-word essay.

But, enough with the excuses, for I have still been spending some hours here and there on World of Warcraft for breaks. I’ve written a few draft blog posts, but never put in the effort to finish them for pub­lish­ing, because I don’t get that blogging mood often when I’m pub­lish­ing posts to a layout I feel is ugly.

I still like some concepts of this design: the colours, the organ­isa­tion of the footer, the comments link… but I feel funkiness may be what keeps me inter­ested in my own blog when I have to spend perhaps 10 hours each week on it, despite having des­per­ately wanted a min­im­al­istic design.

So here’s going into a new design brain­storm­ing stage again…

One year hiatus is over!

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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Greetings, 2009!

Categorised as Miscellaneous, Web-Related & tagged with celebration, Design.

New Zealand is coming up to a whole new year in 10 minutes! (Ignore the time of the blog, it’s actually 11:58pm) Then all you others will follow up because we lead the world.

I have to give a BIG Thank You to my Santa Crystal for my awfully sweet (albeit embar­rass­ing) gift, dubbed “The Rilla Book“. I love it and I’m def­in­itely doing Secret Santa 2009 again! This design was my Secret Santa gift to Emma if you’re curious. I spent quite a lot of time into it too!

Oh. Fireworks outside. New years. HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! *sigh* Work tomorrow morning. *throws another fit*