Posted by Pritesh Bodalia | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 | comments (2)
Welcome to the redesigned 'random nonsensicals', now dubbed 'an irregular muse'. As you can see (if you are viewing via RSS, click here), I went for a clean look while maintaining all of the features of a typical blogger theme. The interface was designed with just plain ol' html/css via notepad. Then all the good stuff from blogger was adding via their custom scripting language.
Blogger has a few resources for getting started, although personally I did not find them useful. The only thing that worked for me was reading through those resources and then playing with one of blogger's prebuild themes.
Outside of blogger, there's plenty of third party widgets you can add, as well as resources for custom widgets. One cool thing I found was adding label cloud support, which is something you see in blogs from wordpress or other blogging platforms. I also found a blog page enumeration resource which could have been cool, but I was too lazy to implement.
A few more websites that were useful in getting the design together:
Known issues: IE 6+, javascript error causes label cloud to not render, IE <6 struggles at transparent pngs (if you are running IE <6, you don't deserve to live), and comments are currently implemented as popups (will change to embedded when I get a chance). Send any and all feedback for design / scheme / features via comments. Thanks!
Blogger has a few resources for getting started, although personally I did not find them useful. The only thing that worked for me was reading through those resources and then playing with one of blogger's prebuild themes.
Outside of blogger, there's plenty of third party widgets you can add, as well as resources for custom widgets. One cool thing I found was adding label cloud support, which is something you see in blogs from wordpress or other blogging platforms. I also found a blog page enumeration resource which could have been cool, but I was too lazy to implement.
A few more websites that were useful in getting the design together:
- ColorSchemer - Choosing colours and Pallettes
- W3Schools RSS Reference - A good reference for Cascading Style Sheets
- DeviantArt - PhotoShop Brushes and general Inspiration
Known issues: IE 6+, javascript error causes label cloud to not render, IE <6 struggles at transparent pngs (if you are running IE <6, you don't deserve to live), and comments are currently implemented as popups (will change to embedded when I get a chance). Send any and all feedback for design / scheme / features via comments. Thanks!
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