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Blog redesign

Welcome to my new redesigned blog! It’s been a year and a half since the last time I changed the design. I have always wanted to change it, but I just always don’t have enough time. 🙂 I know I’m not that good enough in designing, but at least, this is the best design I ever made until now!

The idea behind this design is, to make a simple, usable layout and still looks beautiful. There is a lot of tutorial on the web that helped me when making this. I try to make the website small in size, so you’ll able to load it fast enough. There is also a cool trick on the background, which still make the markup small without much wrapping div over div to accomplish the effect. I also realize the importance on social networking nowadays, so I add links to some of my account. 🙂

With CSS 3 coming, I won’t forget to add some CSS 3 elements. I add a little transition, on the sidebar links and the social network icon above. You won’t see it if you don’t use webkit browser though, so if you use Google Chrome 5 and Safari 5, then you are in. This transition have no importance at all, the purpose is just to enrich the user experience, but won’t lose any functionality without it. Another CSS 3 property I used is the border-radius. I used this on some input fields you can find. There is also some jQuery here, although I’m only using it on input fields now, it might become handy in future.

While I haven’t check this on all browser yet, but I’m sure it will work fine on all major browser, includes Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Opera 10, Google Chrome 5 and Safari 5. While I’m not supporting older Internet Explorer version, it still, on some basic level, works fine. I even can confirm that the IE 7 load almost everything fine, but it just not perfect yet. I have some issues on the logo and button, same as IE 6. This might get fixed soon. 🙂

I wish I could write the process on making this design. I might be able write it, but I won’t promise that. In short, there is 2 steps at least. First is design it in PSD, the second is convert it to WordPress. I’m skipping the step to convert it to XHTML/CSS first though, well, that’s just how I work. 😉

I hope you will have one or two minute to type down a comment to share your opinion, so I can get better. 🙂 Thanks!

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