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Scar
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 Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject: http://www.JoshX.com - My Web Journal |
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I have decided to convert my site to wordpress a few days ago, so i'm not very good with customizing it yet. But i have my theme and everything ready.
I'm really loving Wordpress. Especially because of windows live writer 
I never wanted a whole site for a journal or blog or anything, but i had this extra domain so i thought i'd just do it.
http://www.joshx.com
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| commonsense wrote: | | Why do you have Rosie in your blogroll? |
ha because she has one of the only blogs that I know of.
None of my friends do any of this bloggin/webjournal stuff  so i cant link to them.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Scar wrote: | | commonsense wrote: | | Why do you have Rosie in your blogroll? |
ha because she has one of the only blogs that I know of.
None of my friends do any of this bloggin/webjournal stuff so i cant link to them. |
Rosies is the only blog you know of  thats terrible, you should check out some well done blogs like the huffingtonpost or shoemoney and just browse their blogrolls. There are much better sites worthy of a link than rosies attempt at a blog.
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Scar
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| commonsense wrote: | | Scar wrote: | | commonsense wrote: | | Why do you have Rosie in your blogroll? |
ha because she has one of the only blogs that I know of.
None of my friends do any of this bloggin/webjournal stuff so i cant link to them. |
Rosies is the only blog you know of thats terrible, you should check out some well done blogs like the huffingtonpost or shoemoney and just browse their blogrolls. There are much better sites worthy of a link than rosies attempt at a blog. |
I'm not really into political blogs. And the huffngtonpost is full of self-importining people. I do go there and read Bill Maher's blog tho. He's awesome.
I actually find Rosie's site entertaining. From reading her blog, you start to get to know her a bit better. And so far, she doesn't seem that bad.
I used to actually hate her.
I'm not a serious or actual blogger anyways. My site is a webjournal that I've decided to do randomly. and i doubt that anyone But close family and friends will ever read or goto it anyways
Do you have a blog/journal? I noticed the one you are linked to isn't active anymore.
by the way, what do you think about that theme on mine?
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Scar wrote: | | I'm not really into political blogs. And the huffngtonpost is full of self-importining people. I do go there and read Bill Maher's blog tho. He's awesome. |
By "self-importatining" you probably mean "self-importanting" (which isn't a word either ). Narcissism, egotism (which are actual words) is what all web journals and blogs thrive off of. By having a blog you are telling people (even if it is family) that you are important, and your life is important, and people should read about it.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| drath wrote: | | Scar wrote: | | I'm not really into political blogs. And the huffngtonpost is full of self-importining people. I do go there and read Bill Maher's blog tho. He's awesome. |
By "self-importatining" you probably mean "self-importanting" (which isn't a word either ). Narcissism, egotism (which are actual words) is what all web journals and blogs thrive off of. By having a blog you are telling people (even if it is family) that you are important, and your life is important, and people should read about it. |
Yeah i mispelled a word that doesn't exist. I was tired when i wrote it.
I actually created a journal entry last night about narcissism and thought about if i could even create a proper journal/ blog since i'm not even into being like that or anything. I never really talk about myself in real life.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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Yah, that blogs the PA blog and since all we've been doing lately is raise funding, its kinda become in active, I really need to star updating it though. I do have two blogs I keep updated though hippocratic lies and Digitalorder. Im not really fan of the content on the huffington post though I love the layout and their blogroll has some of the "top" blogs on the web. The only blog not related to webmastering I really pay attention to is mindhacks.com.
Im not a fan of the whole bevel and glassy style cause it doesnt look clean but thats just my taste. Also for some reason that picture of you in the header reminds me of the youtube video where the breakdancer kicks the kid 
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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As for the design, the color scheme is pretty good. The actual graphics are very-you, in that, they all have that emphasized shiny-bevel thing you love to do. Your top header seems to lack quality or number of colors due to the use of a .gif I am guessing? I would save it as a .jpeg if you want to save room and give it a little more quality, or maybe even a .png if you want more quality for the space ratio.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| drath wrote: | | As for the design, the color scheme is pretty good. The actual graphics are very-you, in that, they all have that emphasized shiny-bevel thing you love to do. Your top header seems to lack quality or number of colors due to the use of a .gif I am guessing? I would save it as a .jpeg if you want to save room and give it a little more quality, or maybe even a .png if you want more quality for the space ratio. |
I love cool looking graphics that show personality. Dull flat ones are boring to me at least.
yeah you can't do much with a gif image really. I couldn't use jpeg as the header format due to the main sky background being more of a gradient. You can't really tell how much the colors change just by looking at it, but you'd see a jpeg border. I've tried. I know i could try to match the jpeg background with the back image, but thats tricky since the positions shifts alot depending on the browser.
I didn't want to use PNG because some browsers don't support this. I found a fix and used it, so i went ahead and made a new one using png.
I didn't add too much too it though, actually i didn't add anything, just made it smaller. There isn't much really to put in the header.
Maybe i could add something green in the background. Like trees and lower the opacity. maybe that'd give it a cool effect. i don't know. I'll mess with it later.
Thanks so far for the comments and suggestions plus compliments. 
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The new header looks much better, much smoother than the pixelated-pattern noise gif. PNG's are supported by all browsers, it's just the transparency that isn't. So, I doubt your site would look as great in IE 5 (the only popular browser that doesn't support .png transparency to my knowledge), but who cares, so few use IE 5 anymore.
I never commented on this before, but you're typography is confusing. To me, your site reads "mosh" or "wosh", and the "x" doesn't look like an x, so it just reads as an icon or graphical element.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| drath wrote: | The new header looks much better, much smoother than the pixelated-pattern noise gif. PNG's are supported by all browsers, it's just the transparency that isn't. So, I doubt your site would look as great in IE 5 (the only popular browser that doesn't support .png transparency to my knowledge), but who cares, so few use IE 5 anymore.
I never commented on this before, but you're typography is confusing. To me, your site reads "mosh" or "wosh", and the "x" doesn't look like an x, so it just reads as an icon or graphical element. |
I agree that at first it doesn't look like "Josh" at first if you read it without knowing the site you are at. But i feel secure in the fact that most of the people going to the site know me and the name so they shouldn't have a problem with seeing "josh" in that. The only problem i actually had with the logo is the part that is supposed to look like an "X". Doesn't really look like an X to me. But overall i do like that font.
If it was a banner posted on some other site, then i can see how that'd be really confusing. I most likely wont be paying for links back on this domain since its mostly personal stuff that is really only targeted to people who know me.
I'll look for a another one though just to see if i can find one that i like, and one that i'll look nice there.
It's been a while since I used IE 5. I guess, I haven't really used IE in a long while. I wonder if alot of people still use it? I doubt IE 5 supports alot of the new coding languages such as new css and xhtml?.
This is the fix i used. I think it only fixes it for ie6. I'm unsure really. But it does have a code for ie 7. I suppose that part of the code is for "just in case"
| Code: | <!-- IE Transparency Fix -->
<!--[if gte IE 5.01]>
<![if lt IE 7]>
<style type='text/css' media='screen'>
#header {
background-image:url(wp-content/themes/joshx/images/newheader.png) !IMPORTANT;
background-image:none;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader
(src='wp-content/themes/joshx/images/newheader.png',sizingMethod='scale');
}
</style>
<![endif]>
<![endif]-->
<!-- End IE Transparency Fix --> |
I can't really test the code since No one i know really uses IE let alone super old versions of it.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:48 am Post subject: |
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Oh, I never realized there still was no support for .pngs in IE 6, or IE 7? Are you sure about 7, I was sure they atleast added support in that version, if not, that is ridiculous.
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| drath wrote: | | Oh, I never realized there still was no support for .pngs in IE 6, or IE 7? Are you sure about 7, I was sure they atleast added support in that version, if not, that is ridiculous. |
IE7 supports alpha transparency in .png images, IE6 does not innately.
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| Kovacs wrote: | | IE6 does not innately. |
"Innately"? It doesn't, period. 
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