This is what I’d like to call “Web 2.0 meets Angelfire circa ’98″. The main colors are Web 2.0 (Flickr pink, Mozilla blue, Minutesinaminute dark teal, Lastfm crimson, Shadows gray, Qoop mint, Youtube tomato etc etc), while everything else is reminiscent of everything that sucks about the innurnets.
It’s definitely too colorful and there’s something about it that I don’t like that I can’t quite put my finger on. Like, the green links in the sidebar’s too blah and dead. Suggestions? Comments?
I liked the last one better (something about the dark brown and green that was…uh, soothing) but I missed having a sidebar.
Now that this is out of the way, I no longer have an excuse to keep putting off working on my final project for web animation class (which is a 30-second Flash web intro. I mean, COME ON!!! Splash pages and intros are so 2001). Will start working on that tomorrow, even though that means I’ll be lugging Veronica Mars around the metro again.
Anyhoots, this was the first header I made for this layout:
It kinda hurt not using the coffee vector that I spent close to an hour making, but ducks > coffee.
That’s all.
And I refuse to test this on IE.
PS: Does anyone know how I can go about moving my WordPress to my main domain? It’s currently on a ‘blog’ subdomain, but I want to change the URL (pronounced as ‘earl’, thanks to lover) to ditz-revolution.net. If that makes sense.
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I’ll be adding panties and more color to the sidebar, as Drew suggested that I make it more cartoon-y.
Drew: gawa ka cartoons ng mga panty na naguusap
Drew: hehehe or duckling na may tangaytangay na panty
Oh. And the comments colors. Totally slipped my mind.
Hi, I'm Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 25 and in the process of learning how to make adventurous life choices. I dislike old people but I love grandma clothes. My goal in life is to build a ball pit right next to my bed. Currently searching for the perfect house coat. My lover is the greatest. 
I don’t know how but can i hire you to make me a new layout? heheheh.
I love the ducks!
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Love this much better. Cleaner, more sophisticated, but yeah the sidebar links are a little blah.
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I lurrrve the underwear! Oh and the twitter part too! Do one with bunnies next time, hehe.
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March 5th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Haha, the panty’s the only thing that I didn’t draw from scratch. It’s from a Photoshop pattern I downloaded off of deviantart. Oh, and the dingbats/heads in the Twitter div haha. Chickabiddies font.
I will do bunnies next time. The Chrizo edition :P
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I love this layout, I think it’s funny and cute.
Right now, you have your wordpress installed in a separate folder. To have it pointing at your domain name, you need to have all the contents in the blog folder in the main directory of your c-panel. That way the index.php will be in the main directory and your blog will show up ditz-revolution.net. I hope this all made sense.
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CUUUTEEE
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Brighten the green? And of course, add the panties.
It’s actually a cute layout Helgarrrr. ;)
I had no idea you were into graphic designing. Where have I been?
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Loves the new layout! The colors are really nice imo.. not too bright! I tend to like white backgrounds because it looks cleaner.
As for moving your blog to your main domain, under Options > General in your WordPress, you can try changing the URLS (“WordPress address” = your subdomain and “Blog address” = your domain). It usually does the trick.
BE CAREFUL THOUGH! Last time I really screwed up my databases because I was messing around too much when I switched the names around and had to manually change my URL back with PHmyAdmin because I couldn’t login!
Try the WP docs:
http://codex.wordpress.org
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I like this layout! But I REALLY like the coffee! And panties!
Eerg I need to join Twitter..
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Green is definitely in. I love the new design!
As to how you can move your blog from a subdomain to the root, off the top of my head, I believe you have to change the WordPress address (URI) and Blog address (URI) under OPTIONS in your admin panel and move all your files to the main domain folder. You also need to update your blog’s permalink structure.
Ah sorry, that wasn’t so clear. Lol.
Here! I found a tutorial page in the Codex that might be useful.
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Helga, Drew’s an officemate of mine ;) small world. he’s our lomo guru here. hahaha
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YEAH PANTIES!!!
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I love it! I think it’s really cute and simple; however, the coffee banner is pretty damn sweet
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The new design, including the ducks, is better than the previous one. And of course, I’m biased with the lolspeak. :D
How about combining (light) blue and pink instead of green and pink?
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hmm, for the links on the sidebar, why don’t you make it a lime green/apple green like the background of this comment area? :D
nice layout by the by!
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Duckies!! I love duckies! And the undies icon is so random/funny/cute :D
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This too cute, I love it!
The panties on to the sidebar adds a kinky touch, haha. >=]
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Another new layout eh.
Looks pretty good in general, but there is something about the sidebar that just doesn’t feel quite right to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it though.
Also, instead of making a stupid 30 second Flash intro, why not write an essay on why you should never use one in the first place (ok, maybe there are excpetions, but they are few and far between). Don’t know if your lecturer would be too impressed though.
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March 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I’m still working on the sidebar. The green doesn’t quite hit me right, too. Gah.
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Heheh, I like the ducks!
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