entoxica

Playing with toys is everyone’s favourite past time. Here are the various toys i have gotten over the past week.

Well actually only one of them is playable.. and I’m enjoying playing it.

It’s that time again, once every 10 years, where you think about what life has given you so far, from baby-steps to now.

That time when you suddenly feel you have grown alot older, even though it is pretty much the same growth one year go, and one year before that.

An 11 year-old and a 19 year-old can be said to be 10+ of age.  That attribute is one which I soon will not have.

My name will no longer appear in the same sentence as “teen”, unless there is a “not” in between. Oh well.

In what is prolly my biggest web project since my first blog, I will turn this current blog into a full website. In layout terms, probably 50% of what you see now will be no more, graphics will be slightly changed, and 800×600 friendliness will be dumped in favour of 1024×768. Website architecture will finally exist, with my home changing to ravion.devsync.net/

Oh, fancy going to orchard one day and seeing

and

and the middle lead-singer dude from

all on the same day on different occasions? I did!

It is done. This blog is officially breathing again.

Leave behind the darkness of old and embrace the brightness of new!

Reboot?

Having signed on as a Rebooter as part of CSS Reboot’s 1 May Event, I decided this would be the motivation I need to flex my designing fingers and bring this blog out of the morgue.

If you are reading this, then this redesign is pretty much done. Near-future additions include draco’s Graffiti (tag-board) and very possibly (omg!) Flickr. The ugly “meta” portion on the sidebar is gone. Find out which songs I’m picking up with my wife, and oh..

see that big logo (clickable) portion at the top ? Im gonna upload a different header pic every week or so, ensuring that THIS DOESNT DIE AGAIN

Design Process

What’s Entoxica?

One night about a month ago, I was pondering a nick to use before a DOTA game. Suddenly “entoxica” popped up and it became my nick for a while. After the game, I realised Entoxica would be a cool word that my new blog theme could be based around. Thus the Entoxica theme is born.

Trust me, the original inception of this theme is very different from what you see now. No stripes, no glossiness, more black and less greys, 3 column layout with a fluid center. Only days ago I realised how fugly it looked. The cleanliness of it all betrayed what I really wanted. Enter: greys, gradients, stripes, white entoxica typography (originally black, as seen from my MSN pic).

Stripes can be a killer, diagonals in particular. Due to the 10×10px repeating stripe background, tediousness sets in when I try to sync the stripes of each element together.

And the reboot of the reboot was finally finished.

Of course, comments are very much demanded appreciated.