akrish

I finished a new layout/design for this site and uploaded all the images and style-sheet last night. It’s nothing too original, just like a banner image and left navigation images but the rest of the styling is done entirely in css. I wanted to make something a little more original, but I also wanted to change the older layout because it was pretty lame. I think this layout will change pretty soon, but it seems like a step up from the older layout.

I showed it to my dad this morning and he said that the fonts are hard to read. I think part of this is because I was designing on a mac, but it looks a little different on Windows. Well, let me know what you think. Does this layout make things hard to read? Is it a good layout?

Up until now I’ve been writing articles directly into my XML files, but last night I spent a couple hours trying to get an online upload form working. I wrote a xml writer, and a password-protected page on the site. The form on the page takes in the text of my blog post and adds the proper xml tags by just doing some simple string processing.

I’m actually writing this post in that form. It’s kind of a test to see how well that works. I also have some aspirations to allow for more tags (such as images, links and code tags) but I think those will have to be manually entered into the online form. I don’t intend to make the writer search for and interpret those tags.

I’m going to be spending most of today working on the site too. I hope to have all the back-end stuff done by tonight, so I can just focus on writing articles and design.

Quickly made an HTML layout for akrish.net. I’ve had this idea for a couple of weeks thinking that it’d be a good way for me to practice my writing (which has gotten pretty bad) while keeping track of things I’m interested in. It’s also meant to be a place for me to practice and come up with some creative website designs so expect to see changes in layout every so often. Hopefully i’ll get a stylesheet up for the site later tonight or tomorrow so it doesn’t look so terrible. Links are currently dead as I haven’t made templates for those pages yet.