Sometimes when I write a new post I wish I could set the post date in the future. Why does everything have to be in the past? When I write about an upcoming event, visitors will see it too early and when the event get’s closer that post is already buried with new ones.
As an example, let’s say I plan to attend Chirp, the Twitter Developer Conference. I probably post about it when I first find out about it, or when I get my ticket and maybe after the event already happened. But Nobody will see it right before the event occurs!!
Below a quick example:
The “future posts” appear above normal posts for an easy glance what’s coming up. After the set time passed, a post would fall below the NOW line and you could even update it with news from the event.
A tumblr theme could look like this:
{block:FuturePosts} ... {/block:FuturePosts}
<div id="now">NOW</div>
{block:Posts} ... {/block:Posts}
Actually any kind of stream with chronological posts could use it, even Twitter or Facebook statuses. It would kinda be like a public calendar. Let’s see.
This is the new Design Process: Skipping Wireframes and Photoshop comps! Well, sort of.. This video shows all the different design steps needed to create the Shitty Day site, from start to finish. As you can see, I tried to implement some principles I picked up some day:
So, where are all the wireframes and Photoshop comps? They got skipped..!! no wait.. actually you could say that the wireframe (basic layout at the beginning) and the Photoshop comp got created straight in HTML. And once it was all done.. Boom.. the whole project was done!
It all seems pretty easy, but I think this process works only for smaller simple apps, micro sites, promotions and so.. For bigger and more complex projects, the traditional approach might still be better.
Credits: The Shitty song is from 28if..
Looking at all the old versions of simurai.com I realized something funny and quite interesting. I kept on switching the background color back and forth: bright-dark-bright*-dark-bright. It seems I subconsciously always tried to make the new version opposite of the old one. I wonder what the next one will be.. Back to dark or abandon the old tradition?
Here the simurai.com history: V4, V3, V2, V1 But remember.. The older the version, the more embarrassing it gets.. ;-)
* Version 3 during the night will be dark too, but let’s oversee that for now
“ Meet the new CSS double dream team: border-radius + box-shadow. ”
Together they are unbeatable! It’s such a joy to use them for rounded corners with a drop shadow. The box above uses: border-radius: 8px; to do the magic.
box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
And it get’s better: They even work on embeded Flash! See the 4px rounded corners live in the photo/video section.
Note: This is CSS3 and not all browsers support it yet, like our friend IE.
Why I’m switching to tumblr.
This is already the 5th version of simurai.com. I’ve gone trough many phases.. highly graphical - minimalistic chic - fat blog - interactive 3D. But I’ve always struggled meeting all the following goals:
With tumblr I think I pretty much found that perfect balance. Thanks tumblr.
Credits: This site is based on the Prologue Theme by Hayden Hunter.
