this must be it... :: geek technique

24 April 2006, 02:08 by mark hoekstra

this must be it...

Today (sunday) I spent a great deal of my day to get all kinds of glitches out of the site-design. I’m still not totally there, but like the title says, for now this must be it... I ran out of time *^_^*

Let me know what you think (I’d appreciate that) and I’m open for ideas/suggestions… nothing’s final yet…

Oh, and especially for long-time commenter the unknown lurker I put an extra rss-feed in the right-hand menu, the RSS minimal feed... That’s without Flickr-photos and del.icio.us-bookmarks, just the feed of this site, nothing more, nothing less, hope you like it *^_^*

And oh! before I forget, the site-credits! (you can also find those here)

The most obvious thing in the site design, the skull-sticker, has been designed by my friend nijne. The rest of the logo is a picture made on my das iBook keyboard with keys from my old G3-keyboard on top of that (you can get an idea of what has been the base overhere). As a template, I took the textpattern-template serene as a base, changed a whole lot to it and I added a nifty navigation which got described as being a fake-dock with minimalistic vector-graphics... I couldn’t have said it better. The icons in the navigation come from the truly unique IRIX, the UNIX which runs on Silicon Graphics-machines and since this site started out on a wonderful SGI Challenge S (which at one point was a killermachine), it seemed the right thing to do. Also because IRIX already had scalable vector-icons long before OS X existed and even longer before Vista had it planned (or did they already remove this feature also?).

To be totally correct on this one, I got the icons out of an iconpack for Gnome (I use Gnome on Gentoo on my workstation) but that iconpack got inspired by IRIX… ;-)

...and oh! This site’s got a fresh 404-page *^_^*

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