New Layout?
Normally my websites use custom templates/engines. I enjoy coding things from scratch since it gives me this strange sense of accomplishment. I enjoy coding almost as much as I enjoy coming up with a new design and I always try to do my own apps. This time however, things were a bit different.
Being a programmer who writes all their own applications is great, but that doesn’t make you a programmer. That means you know the language. Being a programmer, to me at least, involves two stages. One you need to know the language enough to build your own applications. Secondly, you need to know enough to mess with other peoples applications. While I’ve always done this in small-scale, I decided to work with WordPress this time to ensure that I really am a programmer.
The going has been a little slow as I’ve been rather busy, and as such I haven’t had much time to design. However, over the past couple days I’ve been working on my own personal design for the website. One that employs my love of old websites (read as: no stylesheet) and cross-browser awesomeness. It’s a very simple layout, not too much in the way of graphics to ensure a quick loading time (as per one of myfavourite blogs).
At the same time I’m trying to ensure that everything looks good. I’ve been tweaking everything from list-paddings to margins to line heights to ensure that the font size looks good and is readable. I’m going to be going over it a few more times in the coming days and hopefully I’ll have something a little more substantial to show everyone. Right now it’s just a CSS mockup (That’s right, going to go with an all CSS layout this time as well!)
- Just so you know.
Yay! New layout! As someone who’s been using wordpress for years, seeing a site with the default layout is depressing
But an all CSS layout :O:O:O veeery nice
Dammit, now I’m going to have to speed up the (currently almost non-existent) process of designing my own layout. You know just to be awesome and competitive >>
Lol! I like how this post spurred some competition between you two. =)
Oh, I have to say I love the name of your blog! It’s very whimsical and the idea of your feet (or anyone’s for that matter) having a mind of their own is rather… adorable. It reminds me of this drama activity we had to do once in grade 7 where we had to make our feet talk to each other (a a warm-up exercise) and at first a bunch of us were rather skeptical, but once we had delved into the silliness of it all, it was a lot of fun. =)
“cross-browser awesomeness”
I’m not afraid to say it. I love this BLOG!