Header revamp and an artsy Sunday afternoon

I’ve been doing a bit of blog clean up this weekend. The sidebar widgets were sort of cluttering the right column and it wasn’t clear what the links were meant for. I’ve added a couple more places where you can find me or get to know me (i.e. Pinterest and Tumblr) and I’ve absolutely twitched the header (used Photoshop and Penultimate for iPad). I wanted a lighter, airier design and once the idea was clear I only needed 10 minutes to call it a day. I’m just loving it!

PS: Take time to visit the pebble drawing artwork by MagaMerlina to get inspired for a Sunday crafternoon or a pals’ gathering. I surely did!

Global Technics Studio website updated @50%

This weekend I’ve finally released v3 of Global Technics Studio website, in which I implemented jQuery Better Coda Slider effect as shown in jQuery for designers, thanks to their excellent tutorial.  I’ve also used Cufon in one of the subwebsites for the sake of getting rid of Arial for a while . So far I’ve finished two of the four subwebsites, which correspond to the slogan “Find out the four secrets at GTS!”. When finished, GTS will come in four flavours, each with a different technology.

Here are some screenshots:

EDIT June 09: The Cufon code seems not to work at all for long paragraphs and/or texts within the nav bar, so I’m going to use images instead.

Ferry Halim, American Girl and XTEC -Some statements and one conclusion

Some statements:

1. Yesterday I discovered that Ferry Halim, creator of Orisinal and one of my favourites, is behind the design of some of AmericanGirl‘s games -another favourite of mine-, such as Coconut’s Safari, game I posted here.
2. Since September 08, the XTEC policy has denied access to a number of websites including certain keywords. This includes AmericanGirl. I wrote to them: no exceptions. To a certain extent, I can understand. But not to this extent :0!
3. AmericanGirl is a USA dolls manufacturer.
4. My students used to love the games in AmericanGirl and others made by Ferry Halim. In June 08 we had a special session in class, with the beamer, to celebrate the end of the school year. They had a great time.
5. They can’t play AmericanGirl‘s games at school anymore -nor reading its magazine, solving its pastimes…
6. If you’re reading this and you’re connected to the internet through a XTEC server, the links above pointing to AmericanGirl will lead you to an ‘Access denied’ XTEC page. But it doesn’t read ‘Access denied’. You’ll be told that the page doesn’t exist.
7. Fortunately for you, you can enjoy AmericanGirl  and Ferry Halim‘s artistic games from other ISP’s. Most of my students can’t.

One conclusion:

1. Boo-hoo!

Another sweet idea by Ferry Halim. Don't miss the music on this send-a-flower page!

New header

 

I’ve uploaded a new header made with Wordle and Photoshop.

More possible headers, powered by Wordle:

 

CSS, RSS and all I always wanted to know about the semantic web -and didn’t know who to ask about!

That’s what I’m on today. I’ve left aside TS2 for a while -yes, you heard right, just for a while- and I’m devoting my efforts to this other thing that I’m just beginning to discover. I was stuck to web 1.0, according to what I’ve been reading these days, so I must hop to web 2.0 if I want my websites to be cool. And I do.
I know I’m late far more frequently than I’d like to, but today I came across these articles:

• http://www.htmldog.com
• http://alistapart.com/authors/g/patrickgriffiths
• http://www.csszengarden.com/

and now I worship every word of them. They have deserved a root folder in my bookmarks, which is something extraordinary.
Well, don’t take my word so literally! ;-P

Whoa!!!

Last 48 hrs.: computer issues, made some snapshots for a web I had to absolutely revamp, held three different meetings within two hours, hurried home, webdesigned, cooked dinner, webdesigned, went to sleep, dreamt of webdesigning, gone to work, went shopping in a rush, drove home, thought about webdesigning, cooked lunch, webdesigned, back to work, gathered more materials for webdesign, welcomed my little dearest nephew, drove back home, prepared him a snack, welcomed my brother, took some family snapshots, waved my brother and nephew goodbye, webdesigned, made dinner… Whoa!!!