A Few More Tweaks

★ posted on 4 Feb 2010 at 9:39 pm under Blog ★

lighthouse

The lighthouse at Cape Otway. Heh, managed to wait for no people to be around and took a snapshot of the lighthouse. Might have overdone the vignette in post processing but I kind of like it that way. This is a picture of symmetry where the sea level is straight and the lighthouse sits right in the middle, with the path to the lighthouse drawing your eye towards it.

* * *

Added a few more tweaks to the web design. Tweaked the navigation bar so that one can wander around the site and still get back to the main page (have always ignored to put a home link as the usual idea has been to use the header logo as the link back to the main page). Added CSS3 text shadows to the post titles, and made some subtle colour changes all around. Heh, didn’t mention Internet Explorer support as they aren’t really standards compliant so I’m not going to bother. I guess most of the visitors to this blog will be using a more sophisticated browser to begin with.

Want to go back to linking websites that I frequent. Not sure what format I’d put it in but the web has so many useful areas to provide information on various topics and I think sharing is the best way to let others know what I tend to read.

* * *

Seem to have lost track of time. Tweaking the code for this website is a good exercise in forgetting about other things and it can keep me occupied for quite some time. There’s a few things I could continue doing when I have time, including getting the search box back into the layout, as well as finding a more elegant solution to the archives.

I set about being minimalistic about the current theme, and rather than tear it up and start fresh, it’s easier for me to slowly evolve it and I’m liking it more and more each time I tweak it, which is better suited to the time I have now that I’m working, compared to when I had all the time in the world as a student. Heh, more to come soon.