Testing a new theme. I intend to fully customize it, however I really didn’t want to start from scratch. I have some ideas for new content/new content sections. I thought it would be cool to share what I know about WoW, and now FF14:A Realm Reborn (which I’m having a ton of fun in).
So I’m not dead. I’m trying to decide what I want this site to be. I’m gonna do a redesign, and then I’m gonna do something with it. I’ve decided to not even support comments (design wise), I might throw in like Livefyre or something. I’ve seen them over on WoW Insider and really liked how easy it was. The comments also aren’t completely useless for mobile either. Think I want to do a sort of a throwback to one of my earliest designs, but modernize it a bit, make it full on responsive maybe. We’ll see! Been playing lots Continue reading
So I decided to stop my crappy attempt at an thrown together mobile layout and just go with a new theme. I worked my way through sandbox (I keep an updated version, but this time I stripped it down) and implemented a variation of the 978 grid for mobile devices. After I threw together something in photoshop (it really didn’t need to be that complicated, remember a mobile device has less screen real estate, so sidebars and the like were thrown out) I threw up the new theme, tweaked it, and there we go! It was interesting working on it Continue reading
I’ve had an iOS device for ages now, by today’s standards it’s a dinosaur, but it is useful for a few things besides as an ebook reader — testing my sites with a mobile device. For awhile I’ve just ignored my personal site as the main area you could zoom-in on pretty easily and it was “readable” for the most part… However today I decided to go a step further and target mobile users specifically.
Awhile back, I had this smart idea to use an overlay for my random headers. I’m sort of a fan of these things, I think it’s kind of fun to browse around a site and see the headers change. In the past they worked fine, a google search can find you a simple php image randomize script, but really any will do. What I’m going to talk about today is the problem I had which happened only in Firefox and drove me completely insane. I decided the best way to implement a PNG overlay was to use a standard image Continue reading