entoxica

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.

I so really need to sleep. On the bus im so sleepy i cant even bother to open my eyes to bio chiobu, even if one is sitting next to me.

I started on Edelyn’s new blog design last night and just completed the finishing fixes. After i had it done i realised its actually the first site I have completed that uses nothing but CSS. NO GRAPHICS! Im so proud of myself! nanana…

Slept at 4am last night due that, woke 4.5 hours later. Later spent much of the afternoon at Comex; the mx310 mouse i was looking for came bundled with a keyboard.. so i was thinking.. Hey why not, my old kb is getting clogged with brown stuff from who knows where.. And the keys on the new one are SO soft and nice to press, just like my sch lab’s

As you might have realised, i have changed my blog theme. Its been in the works for 1 month ++. Not everything is up and working yet, so please be patient in the meantime