Moved

Please go to Shingle.uni.cc now. I mentioned that this domain is mine and it used to just point to here (shingle.wordpress.com), but I have just set up WP on Ahplace, which is a free and nice web hosting service. (It was quite easy, as WP has advertised, so I encourage you to try it too.) So my domain now goes to the newly set up blog, and that looks quite cool, so I hope you enjoy it too. As you might have guessed, I will not be writing on this blog, so update your bookmarks, if you still want to read on.

Del.icio.us bookmarks

If you had looked at the sidebar of this blog, you might have noticed my “Recent Bookmarks”. It is a list of recent bookmarks I have added to my list on Del.icio.us. Why I’m mentioning it here is that there are some good stuff for your web design needs. The most recent one, for example, Background Image Maker, is responsible for two of the images on my personal portal. Saved me a lot of time because I could have wasted the whole night with The GIMP and produce nothing. (Not meant to say The GIMP is bad. It’s good for people who know how to use it.)

There are some tags that are most related to web design. I got most of them directly or indirectly from Digg. Something like web design, HTML, CSS, photos if you’re looking for stock photos, even PHP which I know nothing about. Some tags are really quite chaotic, but you should still find something useful.

Deadline met

One big step in the course work is to make the portal(s). The teacher set the deadline for us to make the pages to be Sept 1. By now of course I’ve made my pages. I don’t know how I can show it on the blog, and I don’t really want to. But I can say that I am reasonably satisfied. The only thing that bugs me is the contrast between the grey text and the lighter grey background is not big enough.

I haven’t tested the pages thoroughly in IE, only had a brief look. My main browser for coding is Flock for Mac (with the Developer’s Toolbar extension installed). Of course I care about the 3% of Safari users (that’s including me) so I tested it in Safari too. So I have covered the 2nd and 3rd used browsers in the world but not the 1st. It might have big troubles in IE but I don’t know yet.

One thing I thought funny was I can’t judge how beautiful/usable my pages are. I thought that with my years of experience on the internet browsing good and bad sites, I can identify if a page is good or not. But no, my pages went through a few big and small design changes, but I can’t say if those changes are for the better. I guess it’s just hard to judge one’s own work impartially.

A domain for this blog

There’s a domain that I’ve got for this blog. It’s free of course, I don’t pay for anything. It just points here, in case you don’t like that WordPress subdomain.

The domain: http://shingle.uni.cc

Yes this is a domain, registered under my name. If you want one, you can go to Uni.cc to register one for free.