| Some Colours, Finally! | 14/08/2010 | Hey, did you notice the colours, yeah they are still in progress and right now I am thinking of reworking the entire layout of this site to make it look better. By entire layout I mean code, the layout will probably look the exact same with some minor changes. I just can't get this to look the way I want it to.
First though, I want to make a little banner thing to put at the top to replace the "Cevox's Personal Blog" text. I still don't know what it should look like though . . . I am having design issues. I never was a good web designer . . . I might as well redo most of this site to make it look nicer . . .
I guess we'll see what I end up doing.
Tomorrow is Sunday, which means I will be going to church. Only because I am with me mom this weekend though. On Sunday I usually feel pretty good so I might get quite a bit done, but only if I plan it out first tonight.
I should probably get to that then . . . |
| Update | 13/08/2010 | 'Ello one and all!
My birthday has come and past and I got exactly what I wanted! Not that I gave either of my parents much of a choice; I told my mom I wanted a drawing tablet and I told my father I wanted Monster Hunter Tri. I got both!
Monster Hunter Tri is an amazing game, I thought I would like it but I didn't know I would get addicted! I love playing, there is so much to that game. First you can hunt monsters and go on quests by yourself in the offline single player mode, and you can also go online with thousands of people, recruit four, and go on a quest together. There are many quests online that you can't find offline and you are assigned a Hunter Rank online that you can level up by doing more quests. It is a lot of fun.
Especially when you get to forge that new piece of armour or make that upgrade that weapon you love, I really do enjoy that game.
The other thing I got for my birthday was a drawing tablet (Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet to be exact), and it makes drawing so much easier. Also, since I got Adobe Flash I can make animations and games without a huge amount of frustration. I will probably be using the tablet more once I sort of "get into it" or something. I use the tablet but I don't really have a schedule for making games or animations. I should probably plan things first though, so I know what I'm doing.
Right now I am learning ActionScript 3 with the whole Flash thing so thats why I haven't really submitted anything anywhere. There is something I am working on from the Shootorials on Kongregate that I almost finished.
Other than that I can't really think of what else to type right now, I might post something again tomorrow. |
| Version 1.0 | 28/07/2010 | So, today the site is version 1.0, yay!
All that means is that this site has more or less all the features I wanted it to have, I added the personal post thing after I thought it would be useful. Now I will probably be posting in this more often, if I remember.
But just because the version is 1.0 doesn't mean that I am finished editing this site, I still want tweak things and make this place more beautiful. I have been thinking of adding something for myself to make it easier to update the site version page. Instead of having to change the actual code each time I want to be able to edit the site version without touching the actual code. I might do that today.
I've never actually said anywhere why I made this site, and I kind of want to do that right now. I don't know how long it will be but here I go.
I used to have a journal when I was younger and I would write in it to whenever I would do something noteworthy. Since then though, I have given up on that journal because it wasn't too easy to write in and I could always type faster than write anyway.
Later I got a computer in my room (it was an old computer so it couldn't do much) so I decided that I would write little journal entries on it. Unfortunately that computer was moved and eventually thrown out so I wouldn't be able to write in it in the privacy of my room. I never really wanted to do that on the other computer we had that was around where all my brothers would constantly be watching what I was doing.
Now though, we recently got two newer computers and I noticed that nobody would really watch me while I used a computer anymore. Since I have wanted to have a sort of blog that I could access from any computer for a while, I decided to make one.
I didn't really want to just have a blog like many other people where you use pre-made code or anything like that, I enjoy creating things so that is why I made this site. Making my own blog site like this had it's advantages too, I have way more control over what I want to put on it. Although it won't ever been as clean and professional or popular as other things like a Live Journal that some people have, I do have a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from making something myself.
And there you have it, a fairly long explanation of why I made this website. |
| More Stuff | 27/07/2010 | So, I've changed this site some more, unfortunately I've haven't yet changed all the coloury things yet. I still don't know what I want to do with that. But I have made some fairly important changes (at least I think so) of course the site version page can tell anyone what I've done. I added a radio button that allows me to make a post personal so I may only see it, or public, so everyone can see it.
I also made the edit profile page actually work and I might do the view profile page eventually too.
After I do make the view profile thing work than the site will be version 1.0, right now I have it at 0.9.9 because it is almost good enough in my eyes to be version 1.
I could always make the view profile work now, but I feel kind of tired and 'out of it' so I'm not sure if I will. If I do though, I would probably edit this post or make a new one saying that the site is now version 1.
Umm . . . I guess that's all I wanted to say. |
| Tweaks and Additions | 23/07/2010 | So, I have been changing things a bit lately. Mostly just fixing minor issues.
I fixed all of the problems that I mentioned on the previous post and if you have a widescreen monitor the sidebars aren't as huge anymore. I don't really have much else to add, except that I also added the ability for me to edit a post I already submitted.
I feel the need to change look of this site and make it less of one colour, but I have no idea what colours I would like to have. So for now it will stay black and white.
EDIT:
I just realized that I could do something else, I could always actually fix the view and edit profile buttons so they actually do something . . .
If I do that I will also probably add a link to the left side that lets people see my profile to learn more about me. . . I guess I'll get to that then. |
| Some Issues | 21/07/2010 | So, I made this site using a computer that has a standard aspect ratio screen (4:3) and I used Google Chrome as the browser I tested it on. While things looked fairly nicely on that screen I just figured out that my site looks pretty bad on other browsers and resolutions.
I went on my second computer, which is widescreen (16:9), and it the sidebars are extremely large! I think I may change it a bit so the side bars are smaller, but then it wouldn't look as nice on non-widescreen monitors. I am not sure what to do about that, unfortunately that wasn't even the worst part. When I used a different browser, Internet Explorer, the main screen didn't even work properly! You would only be able to see the most recent post and it would look kind of strange on the bottom.
Even worse though, was when I checked the site using FireFox. I have no idea what is wrong with my table code but for some weird reason all of the posts were overlapping at different parts. I will have to try to adjust my code, but I have no idea where I should start . . .
This is not what I was looking forward to, if anyone looking at this site I suggest you get this browser. The site will look better with it.
EDIT:
This is a test. |
| It is WORKING! | 20/07/2010 | All this time I've been procrastinating and taking a long time to do anything to this site, but in one day I have completed it to a point where I don't mind using it!
This are still some things that I would like to do before I am completely happy with it, like change the look from a white background and black text to something a bit better looking. In fact, I already have a little idea of what I plan to do with it.
Firstly, I would have to choose some sort of colour scheme, but after that I think I would create an image to replace the current static text for the header. I would write the words with my own handwriting, maybe make some sort of logo or something for myself. Yep, things would look good.
But I would kind of like to get a drawing tablet before I do that so it may look better than I could currently do. If things turn out the way I want them to be then I will only have to wait for another month before I can really get things going!
I could get used to this writing blog post thing, and while I could have used something like WordPress or something to make a blog that looks nice I think making it myself really makes me feel better. I am super happy right now that I have made most of the base and it all works.
I guess I should end this now since I don't know what else to say . . . BYE! |
| Testing the code stuff. | 20/07/2010 | This is only a test to make sure all of the code I have typed so far works the way it should. If it does then that means I will have my own blog soon!
Although I will still want to improve things like the design and what-not, maybe add a few more features as-well. Anyway, test and stuff! |
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