I’m Back

December 28th, 2009

After two to three months of working out a new design, I am finally back with a new design. Some of the goals that I had when creating this design were:

  • make the design clean as possible
  • make the text  clear and readable
  • lighten up the design (this was my main goal)
  • use wordpress to power the site

Why Wordpress?

The main reason for the new design was to switch my blog over from rapidweaver to wordpress. I have been using rapidweaver for about two to three years now to power my blog while creating the rest of the pages in Dreamweaver. While I have been meaning for sometime now to bring all the pages together in wordpress I just didn’t have the time to port everything over to wordpress. Finally when rapidweaver would not accept my serial for some odd reason I thought it was time to switch.

Design, Code, Repeat.

One of my biggest dislikes from my previous design was how dark the whole site was, so that was the first thing I fixed. I redid the whole color scheme using white and green instead of red and black to give the whole site a lighter and more informal feel. Also my old design always felt really cramped so I originally decided to widen the whole page out and use tons of whitespace, that just didn’t feel right. So I compromised with a little bit more space in between the text and the border. The final big change was I decided to use as much CSS3 as possible, the reason for this was: one – it makes the whole site forward looking, unlike like alot of sites that still cater to older browsers and two – it was easier to use than many popular hacks, and does not require javascript to work.

Future Bound…

There are still some ideas that I would still love to play around with someday as well some surprises planed. As far as some topics I would like to cover in the near future are:

Also if you have any questions or found any pesky bugs that are still around feel free to email me.