I felt like I needed to add this little post in to explain a few things about how the site runs.
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Instruction Manual
Saturday, February 20th, 2010Makeover
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010So this is the final theme (for now) of the site. I went for a kind of futuristic/space age look, using the blues and greys. You’ll notice that links are blue and an underline appears when you hover over them. Let me know what you think of the new theme in the comments, everything is still easily changeable. Look out for more frequent posts, too – I’m trying to change my ways!
Getting Around
Sunday, February 14th, 2010It’s full steam ahead with the redesign still. I’m working steadily down the page, so now that the header and the favicon are done, I’ve been working on a navigation bar to sit at the top of each page. After much, much struggling with the CSS, two complete re-writes of the code and about 12 different GIF designs, I’ve finished it, and personally, I think it looks kind of good.
That’s not the best part, either; the reason it took so much redesigning and coding is because I was adding rollover effects to each of the buttons. See those little white dots? Watch what they do when you hover your cursor over the button they belong to:
The way it works is using the CSS ’sprites’ technique. I won’t go into it here, because there are loads of places where you can learn about it. Basically, it involves setting up the original image and the rollover image into one document and then using the background-position function in CSS to display the second one on rollover.
I won’t keep you any longer, I have some coding or something to do (it’s the sidebar next). See you next time for another installment of How I’m Doing With The New Site!
Minor Changes
Thursday, February 11th, 2010While I’m sorting out the new (and improved) theme for the site, I thought I’d add in a tiny change to the current one; it’s something that is quite helpful as there are no homepage links on the individual pages. Well, now the header image is clickable, and it links to the homepage. It’s a small thing, but I think it makes quite a difference.
If you’re a blogger on Wordpress and you’d like to learn how to do this on your custom themes, click here.
Hello world!
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Welcome to my new Wordpress blog, hosted on my very own site! I offer thanks to UrbanGiraffe, who provided the PDF I needed to get designed and ready to upload. I’m still working – this current design is temporary – and I’ll be blogging about the process. Hopefully I’ll be making a corkboard theme. That is, the posts will be posted on a corkboard background. Check back soon to see the progress I’ve made. Oh, and feel free to comment with any tips, questions etc. See you soon!