If you noticed i made some additions on the sidebar of my blog. =) i'll update that once a month i guess. and the mystery singer of that very nice song is revealed there too. ^_^ but he really sang super well la. i added a small picture on that entry too. hahaa
oh, and those of you who ask me to change my blogskin -- here's my response:
If you are a good blogskin designer please read this!
1) Those stupid blogskins which restrict your blog view to a tiny box no bigger than what i can make with my index finger and thumb are definitely out. Those that restrict the blog view to one extreme side and/or with a narrow width are also out. Here are some examples: this, this this
Note that i'm talking purely of the blog layout, i'm not talking about the design/blogcontent/ etc.
i don't like those with narrow widths or small viewing area because i like blogging long blogs sometimes, and having narrow widths will make a blog seem excessively long. Also, i believe it is alot more viewer-friendly when the viewing area is bigger.
2) Those stupid blogskins with alot of fancy graphics and black backgrounds and all those 'cool' images are out.
Firstly, a blog should be appreciated for the content, for the way the blogger writes, or for the things he/she posts. NOT the design of the blogskin!! Seeing those stupid messages on some little teenies' (erm, lower-sec) tagboard such as 'ooh i love your blog cos the skin is so nice!' and anything like that really disgusts me - the blog is being appreciated for the blogskin? excuse me? if you want to admire nice blogskins go here la. go visit other people's blogs for what.
Next, having such blogskins will cause a longer page loading time, and also ultimately slow down the speed of your computer. See, i'm being considerate.
3) I want a white background.
It is the easiest colour to match anything with - pictures /fontcolours etc. Black is the other alternative, but pure black isn't that nice. plain white is simple and perfect. Black is only nice with a design like timo's, but he has already done it, so i won't copy him. however, his font size is terribly small, so it erases out the benefit of his nice background ^^
4) GROWL you fussy person so what do you want?
Ok, so if you want me to describe my perfect blogskin , it would be something like this:
Some nice picture at the top. Something like what xiaxue did is super nice. however, she did alot of photoshopping to come up with that picture, so to do something resembling that would be tough. No i definitely don't want some photo collage like giddy's one. Something nice and simple would do actually.. but i have no idea what kind of picture i want.
Side bar can definitely improve from what it currently is. Atm, it's too plain. Something like what xiaxue has would be nice. A personalised one. I mean, not the same as hers, the classic curley font la, but something personalised.
Background can be plain white.
Any good blogskin designer who feels like doing a good deed, and wouldn't mind doing a blogskin for me please contact me. =) leave a comment or something. my MSN is diabteo@hotmail.com
i will give you front-page-size-7-bolded-font credit definitely ^_^
i need to learn how to use Photoshop.
