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summercomfort) wrote2003-11-10 01:30 am
summercomfort) wrote2003-11-10 01:30 am
Webpage blabber
I'm currently feeling a happy sense of contentment from cooking two decent meals today, and from designing a website. Actually, I'm usually not artsy enough to come up with very creative designs and graphics, tending to prefer instead an simplicity and ease of navigation. In fact my last two designs were piggy-backed, one off of a template (mychineseschool.com, where I was inspired by a template, changed colors, images, added boxes and spaces, made it resizeable, and made it Chinese-ed and added a 3rd tier of popups), and one off of the previous design (jas.uchicago.edu, where I changed the bg wallpaper, added the refreshable image stuff, made the box a simple box instead of a nifty terraced thing, and made it resizeable). and the last design that spawned completely from Sushu's brain (that's also findable online) is Zodiac Notes. (Of course, there were two others, one that has been scrapped and one that isn't ready).
Anyway, I like the overall design of this one (WIP, will have photos, write-ups, etc), except for a few small quirks, it came out with the right "feel": clean, easily navigable and resizable, but with small inobtrusive touches that make it easier on the eye yet doesn't add *too* many tables and irksome coding. It is sufficiently different from its affiliate, but still with traces of similarity. It is also sufficiently different from my other designs, both in appearance and in form (I used suffiently *more* tables and images, but it is also less php/css-positioning based like my tidepools website (haven't worked on it since June, but a major wip form here), and a lot less layering. I also feel it is much more stable than other forms. The tables worked out in IE/NS with only one glitch. It's not over-bright and clunky like Randomness (I'm glad that I'm the only one who still remembers that), not overtly stylized like Zodiac Notes (although that was the "mood" I was going for when designing ZN, given the target audience), and not overly rigid like mychineseschool. Although a few of the things in there might do with some beveling, and I'm not fully satisfied with the 2nd tier link format....
But yes, as you can tell, content. Just watch it get rejected by everyone and its bytes scattered to the wind..... Then again, webpage done-ness always generates contentment, b/c when I'm writing html, I go into this zen-like state where I'm unaware of time passing, and it's a very nice feeling, although it also leads to utter disregard of social roles, homework, or sleep (until 3:30am whereupon the brain's degeneration affects html-ing coherence).
This has been a good weekend with lots of homey accomplishments: drew a picture, made a website, did some cooking, went out with friends.
Anyway, I like the overall design of this one (WIP, will have photos, write-ups, etc), except for a few small quirks, it came out with the right "feel": clean, easily navigable and resizable, but with small inobtrusive touches that make it easier on the eye yet doesn't add *too* many tables and irksome coding. It is sufficiently different from its affiliate, but still with traces of similarity. It is also sufficiently different from my other designs, both in appearance and in form (I used suffiently *more* tables and images, but it is also less php/css-positioning based like my tidepools website (haven't worked on it since June, but a major wip form here), and a lot less layering. I also feel it is much more stable than other forms. The tables worked out in IE/NS with only one glitch. It's not over-bright and clunky like Randomness (I'm glad that I'm the only one who still remembers that), not overtly stylized like Zodiac Notes (although that was the "mood" I was going for when designing ZN, given the target audience), and not overly rigid like mychineseschool. Although a few of the things in there might do with some beveling, and I'm not fully satisfied with the 2nd tier link format....
But yes, as you can tell, content. Just watch it get rejected by everyone and its bytes scattered to the wind..... Then again, webpage done-ness always generates contentment, b/c when I'm writing html, I go into this zen-like state where I'm unaware of time passing, and it's a very nice feeling, although it also leads to utter disregard of social roles, homework, or sleep (until 3:30am whereupon the brain's degeneration affects html-ing coherence).
This has been a good weekend with lots of homey accomplishments: drew a picture, made a website, did some cooking, went out with friends.
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