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09
Jul
11:38

More progress on “gum”

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Date display

Date display

Edit: It’s here!

I thought I’d share “gum”s progress with the world.

Here we’re seeing the date display which I’ve worked on. It only shows the date of the post for the first post of that day. For any post following that, only the time of day is displayed. The year is only displayed if it’s not this year.

It’s quite similar to what dushkin.org had in the older design, except redone. And this time, done right instead of being thrown in at the last second.

Gum's nested comments

Gum's nested comments

As well as avatars, “gum” will also introduce nested replies. I have to say, it was actually a lot easier than I thought initially. Now you can reply to others’ comments and at the same time not appear as some idiotic smiley I put together at the last moment.

WordPress has so many features the old theme just couldn’t use.

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08
Jul
23:54

Rip it Up and Start Again

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Orange Juice said it before. Rip it up and start again!

I’m really looking forward to implementing this new design I’ve got in the works. It makes me as happy as… something that is usually quite happy (I’m such a wordsmith) to know that, yes, soon, I will replace this horrible poorly thought of design.

I hate the old design. But that’s not a bad sign, at all. It means there is change. It means I am becoming developing as an individual.

No joke! Good artists hate their work too. Kafka wanted to burn his works. Luckily, they were not burned though.

The other thing is that the web changed a lot since two years ago. Creative use of Javascript only really started coming into the picture around two years ago and the social media is taking invading the TV as well (youtube clips and tweets being scrolled in the ticker on CNN). I don’t regret the old design. I simply know how to make it better.

Developing a theme (and touching up on some plugins) for WordPress has been an interesting experience overall, and very rewarding. They’ve made it simple to customize all the elements involved in making the theme work (except for those damn comments) and I salute them.

So off to a fresh start soon. And damn you, IE for making me work so hard.

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05
Jul
16:17

New design coming up

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Ahoy travelers of the internet.

I’m going to bring my website’s design up to more up to date standards in terms of looks. Long, long, overdue. I think this is the 3rd (if not more) year I’ve not done a major overhaul.

I don’t feel that reflects what I’ve actually done. I was in fact very active, and did a lot. No, my gallery doesn’t reflect that sometimes, but I most certainly have.

But why not just fix the problems with the current one first? Because I always felt it just didn’t cut it. That it wasn’t appealing enough. But I used it anyway, and just got incredibly lazy.

So here’s the photoshop mockup of what I have in mind:

Mockup of the new design of Dushkin.org

Mockup of the new design of Dushkin.org

It’s not final, no, but this is version 1. I also intend to have only my latest tweet (or two) up on the site somewhere in a “what am I doing?” kind of box. (Probably under the menu)

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