It’s officially 2010, and the New Year also marks a new design for DZine-Studios. This the 9th iteration, and it’s quite different from most of my previous layouts. The useless (but still cool) sliding effects are mostly gone, replaced by more useful things such as a live-search and a live archives browser. Try them out and see for yourself.
I incorporated a boatload of CSS3 into this design, as promised. The green is gone as well. I feel this design marks a step in a different direction. The previous three or four themes were just evolutions of each other, but this one was a total rewrite from the ground up. It’s still not perfect, and if you guys find any bugs, let me know in the comments.
Anyways, Happy New Year everybody! Enjoy the design— I’m off to slave over my portfolio…
I’ve been slacking with the blogging because I’m working on this. It’s going to be my portfolio website, where I’ll showcase all the design work I’ve done. I’ve been needing one for a while, because it’s rather hard to get clients without a legit portfolio site. However, designing a website for yourself is infinitely harder than designing for a client- I’m never happy with my own designs, and throughout the course of this month I’ve gone through numerous designs. Now that I’ve settled on a design, I’ll need to code it up quickly, before I start hating it.
You can follow my progress on it here; I’ll try to update it often.
Almost every blog out there has a sidebar of some sort. Most of the time it’s not really useful, and only distracts from the content. After all, aren’t blogs written to be read? After the jump I’ll explain why I believe sidebars are not needed in most cases.
Continue reading ‘Do We Really Need Sidebars?’
After several weeks of planning, failed designs, and frustrations, I finally finished redesigning Z-Up. It has a slick new design, as well as some performance improvements…
Continue reading ‘(Re)Introducing Z-Up’
All those web designers out there, with their fancy coding skills, nobody knows how to make a proper website anymore. In this wonderful article, I’ll show you how. So open up Frontpage and let’s get started!
Continue reading ‘How To Make A Good Website’
I’m terrible, I know. I’ve missed a few updates, but I have my family vacation and the subsequent illness to blame for it. Speaking of the vacation, it was pretty cool. I went to Niagara Falls…
Continue reading ‘Egads, An Update!’