Posts tagged with “homepage”
Some minor changes
This time I didn’t make a complete redesign of my website – it’s really lot of work after all – but instead focused on improving the old one. The “about me”- and “portfolio”-pages are re-implemented, so this website is not just a blog. I really like the portfolio design, which I spent a lot of time working on. It’s hard to present programming projects in an appealing way, since I can’t just show the code and say “Hey look at it!”. Code is like poetry, only in a foreign language that not all people speak. And I don’t want to end with a portfolio page like I did before: where my artworks and websites are highlighted the most, because … you know … I don’t consider myself a designer at all, it’s just trial and error.
Don’t concentrate to much on the about-page, it’s just a placeholder for something more elaborate. I need some good photo of me first and a good text which focuses on me. And there are still the obligatory links to my different Web 2.0 accounts missing. Did I mention that everyone and their mum seems to have a Twitter-account? Would like to start my own, but I don’t know what I should write – and who would read it? My friends don’t seem to be very Web 2.0-ish.
Completely unrelated (as usual): I bought an account for the indie-game Minecraft on the second day after I heard from it. Although the graphics look old, it’s very fun and has endless possibilites for the future. It’s still in alpha-stage and I hope that we get some API and can program our own plugins and addons. I’d like to implement a train-system and some landscape-destroying flint – mmh, really reminds of goold old multiplayer Clonk-rounds, building bases, mining gold, flooding caves with water, killing monsters. Minecraft = Clonk – Plugins + 3D.
03:22 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: minecraft, homepage, web design
Yep, new design. Again. Seems like I do not really like dark themes, because since the new old design went online, I didn’t do a single thing for it. And this new steampunk-influenced one is another try to make a clean start back into blogging – now with Chyrp, a lightweight and modular blogging-engine, instead of the old full-blown WordPress. This whole new system focuses more on a mix between blogs and the all-new microblogging like Twitter which comes in handy for me, because it could get me back into writing more often and topic-specific. Let’s face it: the old blog was merely a monthly status-update, covering all the latest news in one single big post.
Cross your fingers that I’m more active this time ;)
01:50 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: web design, homepageIt's done ... not.
As you might have seen, the new design is online. As I said in the last post, it was planned to be a lot darker and grungier, and in my opinion a lot more individual. I originally planned to make the design completely dark without this light header, but it didn’t turn out right, so I decided to play around with vector art to create some swirls and circles as part of the logo. And no – there is no Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop involved, it’s done with the open source tools Gimp and Inkscape. You may would not expect that, but as soon as you got around the clumsy interface of Gimp, you find actually things that Gimp has a lot better done than Photoshop – the lasso tool for example.
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02:44 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: homepageTaking a new direction
Okay, one of my friends, Lolzen, recently started his own blog and with the first post being in English rather than German. I’ve been struggling a long time which language I should choose, because English would address more people. Well, most – if not all – of my readers are german.
But as you can see, I’ve decided to switch to English. No, not with the intention to publish my monthly posts just in another language, I’d rather want to extend my blog a bit and post more regularly. WoW Interface and AddOn development should take a much bigger part in it, because this is the thing I spend most of my time on.
Last but not least, this makes it also possible to write articles based on other blogs. I never liked answering to an English blog entry completely in German – and in a German blog a single English entry would definitely look strange.
By the way: I changed my wordpress password!! Now I can write every time I want :P
02:36 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: homepage