![]() So I decided to pick a more realistic layout for a banner. ![]() Pretty! Did I mention I love NodeBox? By now I was starting to theoretically consider my playful tinkerings to be the possible basis for a new blog banner. I decided to play with the little scribbled circles, add some color, and put them in a grid format with some blog-oriented text in them. You can only play with stuff like this for so long before you start indulging the ego. I made this example wallpaper using a grid of creepy guys:įinally I played with the crazy “graph generation,” which is a feature by which a nearly illegible graph is produced based on a specified list of nodes. It even includes some crazy “doodles” where it creates pseudo-random sketches of creepy little guys. I was playing with one of the NodeBox libraries called Pixie, which is designed to make simulated “scrawled writing.” Short of picking a color, this is about the only design I’ve ever done for it (and apart from the banner and some minor CSS tweaks here and there, it’s still Kubrick at the core!). In fact, my blog has been so “vanilla” in its design for the first year of its existence, that it may be inappropriate to even call this a redesign. Anyway, this is the story of how I liberated myself from Kubrick! (The default WordPress theme). I think I didn’t want to waste a whole post on talking about my new design, without giving some interesting facts about how NodeBox facilitated and inspired the design. I meant to write a post about it when I “made it live” a week or so ago, but I have been putting it off for some reason. can help you find a name that is intuitive and unique to your core competence and your brand ideas.I’ve noticed that people are slowly discovering the new design of the blog. For example, New domain extensions such as.
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