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Its That Time Of Year
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: April 10th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Anyone who is online and has there very own domain will eventually come to the time of renewing it. It's fine when you have just one domain but when you have multiple domains it can certaintly add up. When i started registering domains i decided to register a bunch all at once. I thought it was great to just get started with the whole thing.
But now that the time has come to renew, it means i have to pay for them all again. And it adds up to quite a bit, i own in total at least 6 domains. It dosent seem like much but to me it is. When you throw on top of that a years hosting it adds up to a lot. Luckily this year in regards to hosting i paid just under €6 ($10) for the next years hosting, i got this during the promotion that dreamhost were having.
Although my hosting on this account with lunarpages does not expire for another 2 months i figured that it was worth buying it now and save myself some money. I now have all my renewals paid for in regards to hosting and domains and i am happy that it is out of the way now.
I have just started to take a major interest in websites lately and have set out to make my first good attempt at creating a successfull website, more on that later as i make further developments. I have also teamed up with a college friend of mine to kick start this idea and also have agreed to help out with a few other team based websites. I hope that by partnering up on creating a site it can give me a better insight on how to get things done in a more efficient way and it may give me some pointers on how other people go about doing things.
Playing About With Photoshop
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Tonight i spent a few hours trying out different brushes and fonts and trying to get to grips with a few of the features that are in photoshop. I am not too good when it comes to the likes of photoshop, i know design is a very big part to do with building websites. If you can go to someone and quote them a price for a website you want to be able to say i can design and code it for 'X' amount of money. You dont want to have to say well i can code it but you need someone else to design it, sure it would be ok to do that but it would look better if you could provide the full package when choosing to build a website for someone.
This is why i want to be able to use photoshop, so i can slowly learn how to do a few simple things that would really help out with the appearence of a website, such as nice glossy logos or banners. You can in fact design a full website template using photoshop, this would require a lot of work.
I went looking for some nice fonts and brushes tonight and found a few good sites with loads of different font types and brush types to choose from.
For some really great brushes i went to a website called Brusheezy, they have loads of brushes and patterns that you can download for free.
And for fonts i went to a site called ReFont.com, this site has hundreds of different fonts that cover a wide variety of categories from horror and retro to gothic and calligraphy and a lot more, its great for getting loads of free fonts.
I am at the moment trying to design a header for TheEntertainmentClam, that will not only be a logo but will have a full background of images that will suit the content on the website also.
Theme Change
Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments
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.
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.