design

My new site layout

Well as you can see i have recently changed the complete appearance of this website. I think that it was about time because everything kind of looked all over the place. This new theme (Wicketpixie) i have was created by Chris Pirillo and can be found here. This theme has everything in it, it allows all of my different accounts that i am signed up into to be all displayed on the one page, My Site!

When you get this theme it has all of Chris’s content in it such as live video’s and his Flickr and youtube account. It is a very easy process to change all this to your own content 

I have just recently signed up to Flickr and you can see all my pictures here.

There is one problem that everyone was having with this theme when it came out and that was that it would not display properly on Internet Explorer 7, like come on it works perfectly on every other browser such as firefox and safari. Considering that this theme is FREE to everyone, what you get is unbelievable. This theme could just have easily been made for purchase only!

Back to the problem with IE7 the reason it is not displaying properly is because this theme is still in development. This theme has been released early so that people can get the feel of it and if they like it they can donate for the further development of it.

I have made some CSS up to help fix the problem of the appearance of this blog in IE7, this CSS will align the navigation and search bar at top back to where they should be, the code is as follows:

#nav {

 

float:left;

position:absolute;

left:0%;

top:224px;

 

}

 

#topbar {

float:left;

position:absolute;

left:0%;

}

 

#mid {

padding: 30px 0 0 0;

 

}

 

 

You can just paste the above CSS code into the IE7.css file in the CSS folder of wicketpixe or download this file and replace it with the original.

Download Wicketpixie Theme Here

First Attempt At Logo Designing

I spent some time yesterday trying to edit a logo for my new website, i did design a logo but it will not be the one that i will be using because i don’t think it looks good enough.

As you can see i used the idea of the bubble from the youtube logo, but on youtube its red. I think that its not a bad attempt on designing my first logo but i will have to put more effort into the next one.

Theme Change

Yeah so i finally decided to change the theme of this website because the old one was beginning to annoy me!! But i kinda like the look of this new one now. Unfortunately i still haven’t found out how to make the advertisement slots link to a certain page instead of reloading this one but i will have  to have a look at that later and try to figure that out, it has to be in the code somewhere its just a matter of where

I really want to try and make my own wordpress theme but on the designing side i suck!! But of course i will give it a shot and if i fail i could always ask for some help. After i get the design right i hope to code it for use with wordpress, i have been looking around the internet for the past few days and i have found many good websites that explain in detail, what i need to do. I do already know some code for website building but there is no chance that i know enough for what is required for creating this theme.

I guess that is what i am going to college for, i hope that when i go back to college in September i will begin to get stuck into some more advanced website design. I already know i will be doing JavaScript next semester, and i am looking forward to that

EDIT:i had to change back to my old theme because i had problems with the new one such as the way the paragraphs were not seperating from eachother.