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New Theme [CleanPortfolio]

Tower — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:32:32 +0000

Well, I am quite excited to get this theme visible at last. I’m still working on packaging it and ironing out the kinks; which might take some time thanks to other more pressing projects. Let me know if you find any issues, there is still plenty to be done – like the footer widgets/sidebar implementation and improved main sidebar widgets and formatting.

Site clean up

It annoys me to a degree that I haven’t done more with this main site – even if my blog gets a fair bit of attention from me. I’ve taken note of a number of drafts which in turn I’ll aim to polish up on and get out of the digital door in time.

Progress Report

Tower — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:28:27 +0000

I haven’t updated mainly due to having quite a busy time, I have a new set of CSS files which are using CSS3 gradient features (and filters for IE) rather than relying on images for the job; these aren’t live. I’m still pondering the trade-off, on one hand I remove some images – but I have a large chunk of text equivelant to detailed styling of any other element but doing the same job across 3 rendering engines, making it a potential maintenance nightmare down the road.

I have intentions of writing some tutorials down the line – and I’m still looking to expand my portfolio, unfortunately I have about 5 weeks to do a rather complex e-business site for both my college work and a family business. Its manageable, but micro-management set backs and having to work through remote connection (rather than my preferred method of an FTP server) keep making things difficult.

I’m also getting to grips with Tortoise SVN, thanks to a run-through from Logaan I think I can cover my needs now.

Up ‘n’ Runnin’

Tower — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:27:18 +0000

Welcome to the new site visitors! Hope people like the new theme – it is still pretty fresh off the press and it will likely need some improvements/bug fixes. Other than that it seems to render as I want it to in Firefox and Chrome, with Opera and IE8 working as best I could get them to. If you hover over the little paper icon next to post titles you get a slightly transparent popup with some styling and information. In that regard this is a little minimalistic!

I’ll write a couple of tutorials when I get some spare time, the return to college and over-bearing feeling of only 6 weeks left to get things finished is going to make my projects fight for my time. The footer gives a rough idea of what I want – though I am still spreading my little digital wings; so expect more down there.

Now I am trying to figure a way to either A) split my posts and feeds up into web developing and gaming or B) integrate a second blog solely for gaming related stuff. I also have to make sure Google can find me and numerous other things. Any other critiques (or constructive criticisms) are welcome – I plan to flesh this theme out and may eventually actually release it to the public as a fully functioning and featured theme.