Stunning Silence v1.2.3 [WordPress theme]
Update: v1.2.3 has been released, thanks to some requests by Blair. Links across the template are now highlighted on hover, and the RSS feed icon has been moved to the left. The text “RSS Feed” displays on hover.
Update: v1.2.4 has been released, thanks to suggestions. A fluer-de-lis now displays default to the left of the title; users can modify this logo to change it to their own.
Stunning Silence has had amazing reception with the WordPress community so far. Thank you so much, guys! I loved every single bit of feedback and all the compliments.
This new release of Stunning Silence adds some more features and options to the Stunning Silence WordPress theme including new color schemes (detailed in the picture) and other effects.
Stunning Silence v.1.1.2 [WordPress theme]
Note: this version has been deprecated.
Stunning Silence: a WordPress theme with alluding beauty and a beauty all around, from the backend to the front-end. This is a theme you will want on your blog. Featuring a huge options page for hard-core customizing and a simple modern look on the outside, it is great for your blog.
The Battle Of Fonts, and the Future of Typography
For what has seemed to be the longest time, I had no care for fonts. Words were words, and nobody cared about how they were spaced or whether there were orphans or not.
Then I came across two magazines: one with incredible text, and one with the most ugliest layout I had ever seen. And by the layout, I mean the typography: ligatures weren’t used, line height was horrible… from that point on, I realized the importance of typography.
[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 5.1
(click above for larger version) It’s version five point one of my portfolio home page: my presence on the Internet. In more ways than one, a home page is like a first glance at you, when someone sees this page, they will review you on your work.
Are you a good designer? They’ll look at your home page to find out. Do you know what you’re talking about? They’ll look for qualifications. I made this page with these questions in mind.
[Portfolio] Brandon Wang, version 5.0
Yet another redesign of my personal portfolio: the highlights that made it such a great design (at least in my opinion), and why I unfortunately discontinued the design.
This web page made use of intensive colors, dark backgrounds, and visually stunning effects. It really pushed out the fact that, this person here is a designer.
5 Life Lessons Coding has Taught Me
Coding is a passion, a joy, and a love to me. Although it’s extremely nerdy of me, sometimes I just love to sit down and code for an afternoon. But coding hasn’t just been lines of parentheses and exclamation marks. It has taught or reminded me of many things in life.
From mistakes to rushing, I think that coding as well as the rest of my life (school, sports, music) have pretty much placed me more prepared for the real world than I was a year ago. But I still have a lot to learn.
Time Constraints and New Projects
Lately, a lot of things have been going on in my life. Frequently I forget that I’m still a student, and that I still have to keep my grades up, my parents happy, my teachers happy, my friends happy, and pretty much everyone happy.
What is going on with my life? Well, a few things. End-of-year finals and TAKS testing are mandated for my grade level right now, and there’s no way to not take it, and there’s no reason to not take it either.
I also participate in several out-of-school activities, including swimming and Chinese school (as part of my mission to be bilingual), and please don’t forget I’m almost out of my mind trying to keep up with several blogs at once: this blog, my literature blog, my technology blog, as well as the evil little project I’m trying to do.
[Project] Sleek: A Free CSS Template
I had some excess time the other day, and with this extra time I had, I decided that I would make a contribution to the community by releasing a free CSS template: sleek.
Sleek is true to its name. It has a monochrome layout that gives heavy emphasis to its content, which is beautiful as a photo blog or a single page portfolio.
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Fiddling Around With Photoshop
I do have to admit that sometimes, fiddling around with Adobe Photoshop is immensely fun. Especially when it is raining outside, you can’t do much in the weather, and of course there’s nothing like whipping up something nice and sleek and then feeling proud of it.
I had some excess time the other day, and I decided that I was going to learn some new Photoshop skills. I went on the Internet, looked around for some great designs (and how to do them), and finally, tried them out for myself.
I do have to say that the results were more than pleasing, and I loved the time it took to make the designs themselves. To me, Photoshopping is not work (yet), but rather a joy.
[Portfolio] Not Alex Ltd.
Not Alex Ltd. A website where a guy named Kevin wrote about life, similar to what I do in my literature blogs. Random junk. He needed a great design to string everything together. Gladly, I was able to help.
The design is one of my more colorful ones, proving that, yes, I can do colorful designs and not just monochrome and super-simple. Grass, great typography, and cheese mix together to make one great theme.
[Portfolio] soul log
soul log was an interesting project for me. It demanded a childish feel, but I didn’t want to use Comic Sans throughout the design. I wanted it to be modern yet fun at the same time. I wanted the design to be usable, to have flourishes throughout the design, and to lay a heavy focus on the content.
The design used many design techniques, required a bit of Photoshopping, and made me think quite a bit on some parts. It was a great project, and I was happy to launch into it. Continue reading this »
Sometimes, Forget IE!
Sometimes, you just want to throw out IE. Honestly. Sometimes you just wish it didn’t exist.
I am one of those people; the type of people that honestly wish that IE didn’t exist. More specifically, that IE6 wouldn’t exist. IE7 is better, but it’s all worse than Mozilla Firefox. IE6 can’t even pass an Acid test. That is just kind of sad.
I remember my original designs, making a beautiful design, uploading it, just to discover… this horrid bad light-blue border leaking through my PNGs. Although there are fixes for this, I still want to forget IE.
Unfortunately, forgetting IE isn’t as easy as just telling everyone to forget it. Every single school I have walked into seems to have seemingly forgotten about Mozilla Firefox and IE7. And the worst thing is that I can’t blame them.
Until IE6 gets phased, it’s still high on my view charts. Therefore, it has to be high on anybody’s priorities. I have compiled a list below of the things that I don’t mind losing, and that you shouldn’t mind losing either. Continue reading this »