New Theme

Posted in 业余设计, 电脑与IT at 5:03 pm by 老貓 · Permalink · 1 Comment · 

Again I modified the previous theme to create this new one. The general principle was simplicity, so I removed many little things, and only the necessary parts remained.

The colour scheme is black background with white and light grey text. This reminds me of the personal website I created seven or eight years ago, when I was still a 'wen qing' (文青, young people who loves writing). At that time I was deeply obsessed with such a colour scheme because I found it 'profound'. Well I chose this scheme again today not because it was 'profound' but rather because it was comfortable to me at this moment.

The previous theme is white background with black and dark grey text. Maybe one day I shall name my blog a zebra. White stripes on black skin, or black stripes on white skin, either way it is a zebra.

UPDATE 2009-12-15: After 4 days I realized white background with black text is still more comfortable than the opposite… So I convert the colours…

Tags: wordpress, 模板

又折腾模板了

Posted in 业余设计, 电脑与IT at 3:14 am by 老貓 · Permalink · 5 Comments · 

这次动静比较大，自己对成果也比较满意。

首先是色彩调整，把橙色和多数灰色去掉，加入大量黑色。第二是把朴实平板的色彩条都改成光滑质感。第三是把每篇文章的日期改成日历样式，节省空间。

每做一个改动就得在Firefox、Opera、Safari还有IE四个浏览器上检验，还要考虑到不同的分辨率，整个过程真的是十分漫长乃至机械和重复。

有时候也因为出错而发现了某些tag和attribute的妙用，现在的header样式就是某次失败尝试的副产品。这样的发现让我快乐。至于长时间困扰我的某个bug被清除时的那种成就感就更不必说了。

现在的这个模板在上面提到的四种浏览器下都（应该）能正常显示。

Tags: Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, wordpress, 模板

I Love My Design

Posted in 业余设计 at 7:10 pm by 老貓 · Permalink · 2 Comments · 

This is the logo for our GESL team, ACES. Click here for large original picture. I love it so much!

I came out with such an idea mainly due to my obsession with Voyage Century, and also my fondness of Longman (logo here).

Although the overall idea was mine and I designed the sails (A and E) and the flag (C), in fact the “S” being the hull was the idea of Wee Jin and I think that is the nicest part of the design. I changed the bottom of the hull to a curve to show the ocean waves.

Tags: ACES, GESL, logo, Longman, Voyage Century