December 19th, 2008 by Stargazer
Huh?
As Toei Rei did a quite fine relaunch of her blog with her new design, I had a new motivation for doing something new with my blog. The result is the current view of the page.
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Did you notice?
October 5th, 2007 by Stargazer
If you didn’t already notice, I changed the header image on my blog here. I know, I should have done that sooner, but I was too lazy for.
But why just now? I have discovered Inkscape. Incscape is a vector drawing program. Imagine – common pictures are using a grid which is colored the way you want it. If you resize it, the grid gets resized and you may loose information. If you are using vectors for describing images, it’s them being resized. So you are not loosing any information and the picture looks nice in any size and shape.
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Thinking of a new design
September 19th, 2007 by Stargazer
Somehow the current design of my blog looks boring to me. I feel like I need to change things here. What do you think?
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Adam and Eve blogging
August 2nd, 2007 by Stargazer
I know, I have not bashed the catholic church since some time – so here is a small side blow and a pointer to Robert Basic. He is writing an article about the things you should NOT do in a blog or on a website. It is a great topic and there are plenty of things you should watch out for.
It might sound silly and/or old fashioned, but try to look at your own website or blog and ask yourself if you would read it – If you are in doubt, ask a friend to review it.
Tags: website, design, mistakes
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Now with pictures
April 24th, 2007 by Stargazer
Since I got a gravatar myself, I had to implement that into my blog for comments.
For those who do not know gravatars: gravatars are so called global recognized avatars, small pictures assigned to your email address. In other words, if you leave a comment on a blog supporting gravatars, the picture assigned with your email address will be displayed.
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Error pages
April 6th, 2007 by Stargazer
Todays topic are error pages numbered 404. Looking at my own blog I have worked out a solution and embedded it into the theme of my site.
What’s that Page not found for a visitor? Let’s have a look: Someone clicks a link and gets to a webpage that does not exist. If the CMS does not handle this error, our user gets to a more or less beautiful errormessage which might not match the site layout. In other words, the user might feel kicked out of the system.
Tags: design
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Wie zeige ich mich der Welt?
September 21st, 2006 by Stargazer
Websiten Themes, oder wie präsentiere ich mich der Welt? Wie soll meine Seite nach Aussen erscheinen? Wie mache ich es richtig?
Ich werde oft mit diesen Fragen konfrontiert, obwohl ich kein Profi auf dem Gebiet bin. Es gibt für mich nur eine Lösung für dieses Problem, dem ich mich selbst auch oft genug stellen muss: Ich versetze mich in die Rolle eines Lesers und versuche die Seite mit seinen Augen zu betrachten und die technischen Hintergründe einmal für einen Moment zu vergessen.
Wenn ich ein Layout machen möchte setze ich mich hin und beginne mit einem Brainstorming und schreibe Dinge nieder, die mir einfallen. Generelle Dinge sind dafür einmal ein guter Start:
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