Today i wanted to beef up my photoshop skills and figure out how to speed up the process of designing pie charts. I managed to do that but then i created a separate challenge for myself…
Design
another blog design revamp
Yesterday and today i’ve been busy working on this blog. Last night, a new theme went live and today i’ve polished it up some more. The end result is a fairly smooth, simple theme which looks pretty similar to what went before it, only this one is a bit more fine tuned and classy…
back to creating
Today i learned how to convert a html theme in to a wordpress theme. Well i should say ‘relearned’ how to do it because i’ve done it before (when wordpress was relatively ugly and awkward to use) but i was rusty. I was surprised how easy it was…
just bought omnigraffle
I suddenly find myself needing to create diagrams and wireframes. For my college dissertation, it’s generally easier to create my own diagrams than try to make existing ones ‘fit’. Take the Edgar Dale learning cone for example. I don’t want a big copyright xyz logo on it. Nor do i want a crappy pixellated version of it scanned in from book published in 1980… So although it’s time-consuming, designing your own stuff always looks better…