deathshadow
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2011
- Messages
- 1,378
In preparation for launching Paku Paku 2.0 I've reskinned my website to be less "harsh" and updated the back end code a bit.
Deathshadow's Madness
Just interested in people's reaction to the reskin. I went with C64-ish colours as the starting point, which should be way better than the bright blues I put up there as a joke (in response to complaints about my use of green being too dark) that sat there for far, FAR too long.
Changes on the back-end include disqus for discussions -- it's a cheap sleazy shortcut but gets the job done for now. Mostly I went with them as they are one of the few that actually will export to XML so you can integrate existing posts into other systems in the future. Was unable to get the "comment count" working and after some 6 hours of banging my head against the wall went "screw it" and just put normal links in.
The responsive layout code was updated to my "modern" approach of handling it. The site SHOULD adjust properly to just about any screen size, and is built elastic, semi-fluid and responsive so it will obey your default font-size if you are using something other than the default VGA/Small/96dpi/100%/16px/whateverTheyreCallingItThisWeek. Likewise it should have fully functioning graceful degradation for images off, CSS off, or a combination of both -- which combined with actual semantic markup should mean it's also fully functional on screen readers and should index well for the search engines.
There's also been some BIG changes behind the scenes that will make creation of site updates far, far simpler... which I'm hoping will mean I'll be making update more often than every two years.
So, opinions? Rants? Rip me a new one, I can take it. If I can't take it, I have no business dishing it out like I do. Even if it seems like I'm ignoring your advice or arguing with it, THAT'S THE POINT. I still want to hear it -- ripping things to shreds is how we build them up better!
Deathshadow's Madness
Just interested in people's reaction to the reskin. I went with C64-ish colours as the starting point, which should be way better than the bright blues I put up there as a joke (in response to complaints about my use of green being too dark) that sat there for far, FAR too long.
Changes on the back-end include disqus for discussions -- it's a cheap sleazy shortcut but gets the job done for now. Mostly I went with them as they are one of the few that actually will export to XML so you can integrate existing posts into other systems in the future. Was unable to get the "comment count" working and after some 6 hours of banging my head against the wall went "screw it" and just put normal links in.
The responsive layout code was updated to my "modern" approach of handling it. The site SHOULD adjust properly to just about any screen size, and is built elastic, semi-fluid and responsive so it will obey your default font-size if you are using something other than the default VGA/Small/96dpi/100%/16px/whateverTheyreCallingItThisWeek. Likewise it should have fully functioning graceful degradation for images off, CSS off, or a combination of both -- which combined with actual semantic markup should mean it's also fully functional on screen readers and should index well for the search engines.
There's also been some BIG changes behind the scenes that will make creation of site updates far, far simpler... which I'm hoping will mean I'll be making update more often than every two years.
So, opinions? Rants? Rip me a new one, I can take it. If I can't take it, I have no business dishing it out like I do. Even if it seems like I'm ignoring your advice or arguing with it, THAT'S THE POINT. I still want to hear it -- ripping things to shreds is how we build them up better!
Last edited: