The (not really) final photograblog
Hey so yea i didn’t get enough sleep clearly. I was working on my blog locally on my computer using MAMP and totally forgot to upload the changes to my server. Here it is:
Sorry about the mixup Mushon.
MAMP and Wordpress: installing on your computer locally for easy testing
Hey guys, I did a bit of creative googling and found this site: Installing MAMP and Wordpress
Its obviously only for macs, so unfortunately this wont help you out susanna, but this is pretty quick and easy so if you want to get a local wordpress server setup this will do it. If this was covered during the workshop I wasn’t at this thursday then excuse my ignorance. the only thing that messed up with me was when you click on install near the end, I had to go back and manually edit the wp_config.php file because it had added localhost:8889:8889 instead of localhost:8889. I also changed the root directory to my Sites folder in my main user directory. Other than that it worked and its seriously MUCH easier to do it locally then upload the folder when the site is done. Hope this helps you guys.
CP
My Photograblog
Wow I just thought of that name and I think I am going to use it. I’ve been having real issues trying to name my blog something that isn’t Photography Blog, so maybe I’ll use Photograblog. Anyway here is the mockup of the site. I haven’t finished coding the CSS yet and am having issues with Background images but I will post back with more specifics soon when I get closer to having a final site up.
For the moment I an having a dilemma between the regular all black page or one with a grey border around the edge which is supposed to draw a parallel between photographs you make in a darkroom with borders around the edge. Anyway let me know what you guys think. I realise that nobody in class has seen this design before so give me all the feedback you can muster. Thanks guys.
live neon, encore 1.
As before, you can find NGCT here. The posts and metadata are all “live” now (and everything else, really - except for the “archive” drop down).
Small revision
Did some more research, this may be busying up my design but thought about using these little line dividers to hide any attached images/tags.
What do you guys think? Still need to clean up the black area around the reversed out text, it is very rough at this point.
live neon.
The pre-remedial, extra-basic version of my page is up and running from WordPress here. Not everything is using live PHP code, but the page is a header/body/footer theme with the first post using live information from a WP post (header, tags, body, date are all “real”).
slog updated, html/css, wordpress theme all up.
Updated design, two options attached. First keeps with the white background/black text and gives some increased line spacing to the body copy. This was a helpful suggestion. Second update brings a different element to the table, I inverted all the text so it is white in black boxes, still simple looking and un-wordpressy in my opinion. I know I can figure out how to code this (I think, seems pretty possible to make the type appear as I want it to), but these are some photoshop comps, a bit rough, you can’t see the image as well as I would like.
Update: rough html/css linky
Slog will live here.
Edit: for some reason my padding is being goofy, it shouldn’t be sitting that far to the left. Looking forward to the workshop!
Sheila’s Blog
Hey Guys,
Attached is my theme for a blog about me living in NYC for the first time. Feedback would be great! Sorry it’s so late. See you tomorrow!
Sheila
NGCT v1
Update: javascript menu is working now (tiny and idiotic oversight on my part)
Update2: post copy is smaller now (seemed huge after not looking at it for a couple of days)
Brief: Theming on
The next two weeks are broken to two parts.
Part One:
- Get the HTML+CSS of your main page done before next Friday (March 21st) and post the link to our blog. with a reference to the design made in photoshop (upload a png image to your post).
- Comment on every post made to the blog with your feedback, we need to start helping each other so we make some more progress.
- Post about three open source projects you are thinking of contributing to as your final assignment (the contribution can be any form of design, from interface design, through web design, through icon design to logo, banners, stickers, posters and t-shirts designs)
Part Two (for next class, March 28th):
- Break the design into header, footer, main.php, sidebar and so on… and try to turn it into a theme based on the Sandbox theme.
- Read Eric Steven Raymond’s The Cathedral And The Bazaar. It might help your approach to the development of your blog and we will have a discussion on the book after the break.
- Write a post about the open source project you chose to contribute to as a designer. Try to lay out the ways in which you envision your contribution taking place.
In two weeks from now we’re all going to be theming like there’s nothing to it. please release early, release often meaning, try to post your progress on our blog or mailing list, remember, Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. If you run into problems let us know, we’ll try to crack it together, promise!
