Shizucor

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Not enough blogging!

There are so many things I’d like to blog about but I just can’t find the time! I have websites to post and cool items to talk about! Waaah!

OKay, I guess I shouldn’t make a pointless post with this so I’ll at least include the site of the day which I’ve been trying to write about for some time now.

Artzmania is an e-zine featuring outstanding work of different artists, designers, and photographers from all over the world. This is such a great tool for inspiration, and guess what, it’s free! There are 4 issues out now so go and download them!

BTB, this current design is pissing me off. Some browsers are moving the sidebar down and I don’t know why it’s doing that! So…a change will be made soon but Dan’s website is a priority. I have to keep telling myself that. I love you Dan but this website is my little baby. It’s gotta be nurtured to be a great design! I hope you understand. ;-)

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Modifications for Shizucor.com

Okay I changed my mind about creating a totally new design. I’ll just get rid of the header image including the nav, rework the sidebar, use an image bullet for the list, lessen the amount of rounded corners, and do something with the footer.

Now, I certainly don’t mind getting suggestions from me lovely visitors :-).

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Bad reviews for Shizucor.com

I submitted my new design to the Perfection Gallery last Monday and got my results today. Unfortunately, I was not accepted and for good reason. I read the reviews and I must say, I feel quite inadequate at the moment. There’s one particular review that struck me the most:

This has the potential to be a decent design, but she lost it starting with the pixelly flower in the header, then that drab background, the weird navigation and hovers and the layout of the content. It’s like she tried to go Web 2.0 with the Shizucor title with the shiny dropshadow and whatnot, but she completely lost if after that.

I don’t like the rounded edge bit she has going on all over the place.

I don’t like the serif fonts for entry titles and such. She’s got sans-serif everywhere else so the serifs look out of place. The content in the boxes in the main area needs some more padding on the top and bottom. I don’t like the purple she’s using for links. I don’t like the calendar date things (because of that purple and because you can barely read the light green on blue).

I don’t understand why the sidebar doesn’t extend over to the right edge of the header and footer. It’s about 20 pixels off. That light green over there seems way out of place. It causes your eye to go straight to the sidebar rather than the real content. The overall layout of content in the sidebar is cluttered, and as usual, I have to complain about the default bullets. Ew.

That’s one really sad footer.

This is a definite no from me. It’s way too cluttered, and after having a look at some of the other sites she’s created, I’m not confident in her “design skills” at all.”

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Phew!

I’m pretty much done with the new theme. There are files that still need to be worked on but I never use them but I should finish them anyway and there are things that I may have to tweak.

So, here’s my current to do list:

• Get Mootools to work in Wordpress
• Get asides to appear in the sidebar OR get twitter tools to work
• Check browser support
• Validate everything
• Add an accessibility notice
• Beautify the search form *edit*
• Get over PMS

If you guys happen to see anything wrong with the new layout please do tell me. It’ll be a great help. Also, if you’re using a browser other than Opera 9 please tell me if it looks weird in any other browsers. I’ve checked the layout on the latest Firefox and IE 7 and and everything looks good, so far. Thanks a bunch!

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Joost invite anyone?

Thanks to Matt Lenz from http://webrevolutionary.com/, I was able to download Joost and give it a try. I think I’ll be using this as an alternative to cable TV. As some of you may not know, Colin and I don’t own a TV in our aparment which I think is a good thing but now, here comes Joost.

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