Redesign Completed
As of right now, I have finished redesigning my blog. It took a while and numerous trial and error sessions to finally get everything to look good. The default theme for my blog now is Neo Sapien although I have retained my old one [Quentin] and another theme I thought was interesting: Durable. Of course, I have greatly modified the look but I made no change to the original PHP code. All I did was add some things to a few files.
If you haven’t noticed, there are plenty of ads. I do need to pay for hosting every year, you know. And I think I’ve done poorly over the past year or so with ad-revenue although it seems to have imp;roved since I put all those ads in there.
The logo was made in two parts. First, I used Apophysis to generate a fractal with the triangular shape in the center. Then, I ran it through Photoshop and fiddled around with color and stuff and then cropped the file. Then, I just added the text, a blue shadow, and the white border. The background in the header took some effort. I used a 1×135 file [the theme had a 1x288 file on repeat but I cut down the size] zoomed 1600% and first colored it black. Then I added some blue. After that, I had that thin blue line through the center. Finally, I just added a fancy blue shape towards the top and bottom for that zig-zag line effect.
I also changed the background to black and moved the top menu to under the header image. I modified the text colors and fonts and put that Archives drop-down option to save space. As a last change, I added a page called “Videos” which will feature a couple of videos that I found interesting - courtesy YouTube of course. I’ll change them every now and then. I also removed the Archives page since it was redundant. I am also testing out (at leisure) a new gallery software which I may or may not implement.
So that’s it folks - the new site is complete and I’m back to posting blog entries. Expect some interesting posts in the next couple of weeks - I just pre-ordered a new Nintendo DS Lite (Black/Onyx) and have been listening to a bunch of new music which I will write about.
