November 14, 2012 – 5:31 pm
So I’m not dead. I’m trying to decide what I want this site to be. I’m gonna do a redesign, and then I’m gonna do something with it. I’ve decided to not even support comments (design wise), I might throw in like Livefyre or something. I’ve seen them over on WoW Insider and really liked how easy it was. The comments also aren’t completely useless for mobile either.
Think I want to do a sort of a throwback to one of my earliest designs, but modernize it a bit, make it full on responsive maybe. We’ll see!
Been playing lots of wow, because Pandaland.
So I decided to stop my crappy attempt at an thrown together mobile layout and just go with a new theme. I worked my way through sandbox (I keep an updated version, but this time I stripped it down) and implemented a variation of the 978 grid for mobile devices. After I threw together something in photoshop (it really didn’t need to be that complicated, remember a mobile device has less screen real estate, so sidebars and the like were thrown out) I threw up the new theme, tweaked it, and there we go!
It was interesting working on it but trying to stay away from pixel sizes, but aside from the grid, everything uses ems for margins, padding, etc… Didn’t take me much time either, I know you can get fancy for mobile, but I’ve always prescribed to KISS, “Keep It Simple Stupid”, when it comes to designs.
I’ve had an iOS device for ages now, by today’s standards it’s a dinosaur, but it is useful for a few things besides as an ebook reader — testing my sites with a mobile device. For awhile I’ve just ignored my personal site as the main area you could zoom-in on pretty easily and it was “readable” for the most part… However today I decided to go a step further and target mobile users specifically. Read More »
Awhile back, I had this smart idea to use an overlay for my random headers. I’m sort of a fan of these things, I think it’s kind of fun to browse around a site and see the headers change. In the past they worked fine, a google search can find you a simple php image randomize script, but really any will do. What I’m going to talk about today is the problem I had which happened only in Firefox and drove me completely insane.
I decided the best way to implement a PNG overlay was to use a standard image and then change it’s background-image via css. So something like this:
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I thought I’d share the choice Pandarens are given at the end of the starter zone from World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta.
