Posts Tagged ‘design’

Woohooo! After creating this blog and searching for a nice theme that I would like and wouldnt be too hard to customize, I was a little dissapointed because none of them were really what I was looking for. Then I searched for “create wordpress themes” and somehow found Artisteer. Its a program that doesnt require any knowledge of html/css/codes etc, and still creates very cool designs. It really has thousands of options and I believe an unlimited number of unique and different resulting themes. Also cool is that if you want some inspiration or want to have a look at all the different possibilities, you can just ask the program to “suggest” something, the colours scheme, or the header, or the text and links etc, or just the whole blog. Create randomized themes in 1 click… I did that for a bit in the beginning, then decided to create my own theme completely. Its a great and easy program and with about 200 settings or so to change, it took me around 3 hours to make this blog. Everything you see, I decided for it to be that way, and thats what I like.

After the design was done, I copied/pasted all the html from the blogspot posts over at my original ACD blog “Phutureproof” to this blog. So now I have those posts here. I prefer the design and location of this blog, but unfortunately wordpress does have some options that are too advanced for me, a lot of stuff you can do if you know php, but a lot of things that blogger does for you automatically, arent possible here on wordpress. Also the whole dashboard and editing widgets/plugins is a bit slow. So I dont know if I will really completely remove the Phutureproof blog yet.

I just had a cool rushing internet session with Julian… learnt a lot of new stuff about blogpublishing, he recommended to install wordpress to my server, and showed me the options. Looks like its a bit more advanced than blogger/blogspot. I’m looking forward to trying out the new features.

Whilst installing wordpress on my webspace, I also found out that my hosting provider (Godaddy) has a lot more options nowadays than when I signed up 4 years ago. Like installing wordpress instantly from there, without having to do a lot of manual stuff. I also found the option for making subdomains Something which I tried to do a few years ago but couldnt figure out. Now the new blog will be visible on blog.christiaanleever.com, nothing there yet now though. Thanks to my intentions 4 years ago I made an account with SQL database possibilities, and I can host 10 blogs basically if I want. I also finally figured out how much webspace Im actually using on christiaanleever.com, only about 1GB, out of 10GB total. So thats cool. Im also only using 0.25% of my allowed bandwidth which is 300GB per month.

Later, Julian showed me Smashing Magazine which posts about photography, design, and lots of other random cool stuff to keep you inspired and busy. Only yesterday I had somehow stumbled upon Yanko Design which posts a lot of concept designs. Very cool and futuristic product design. Two sites that I’ve also added to my interesting links list to keep updated with their feeds.

Then as Julian was looking at Google Reader, a simple online RSS reader, I thought, yeah, Ive added all those blogs that Im following here to my google followers list, they should be in Google Reader too. I never used it before, but had a nice look at it and seems like a handy program if I ever have nothing to do… Like that ever happens

I think this morning just started out right. I had a dream that I was waking up and that it was a great morning, but then I really woke up, and felt good Started with photoshopping a drawing I made a while ago. I guess I felt creative.

Dont know which one I prefer. Which one do you like better?