March 2011 ~ onur oral

New Image Based Menu

i have just created a new image based menu (you can see on the left column), which includes hyperlinks to pages that were created before home page, about this blog and about me.

in my opinion, now it looks a way more cooler than basic text links.

you can find more information about image based menus on easypeasydesign.

Centered Post Titles

in this blog, in posts, i use centered texts and images, so i just added a new code to have centered post titles in order to be more consistent.

to do that, you should go design -> edit html, then find (ctrl + f) the following code:

h3.post-title, h4 {

font: $(post.title.font);

color: $(post.title.text.color);

}

after that,

to have centered title, add text-align:center;

to have right aligned title, add text-align:right;

i needed centered titles, so my code looks like this right now:

h3.post-title, h4 {

font: $(post.title.font);

color: $(post.title.text.color);

text-align:center;

}

Do not forget that different template may define post title html code differently, for example in another template, the post title could be defined as .post h3 { so it's better for you to google 'how to align post title' and look for alternatives that fit your template/html code.

Here is the source that i found the code: betatemplates

New and Updated Gadgets

new link lists, which are toolbox, code resources, web tutorials and typographic resources, are created in order to be more useful for people who needs more sources about web design.

also the gadget titled 'links' is updated as 'personal links'. that list is including my personal links.

the blog used to look like that:

Widget Title Images

i have changed problematic widget title images. the problem was some kind of pixelization. the first thoughts were the images were saved as png-8, but it was not like that. the main cause of the problem was 'glowing edges'. after re-designing the whole widget titles (without glowing edges), the problem fixed.

it was like that (look closer to the titles 'Pages, Labels etc...'):

now it looks like that:

Russian Constructivist Blog

i have began to publish some posts and pages to russian constructivists blog after deciding the overall design. you can visit, read and post comments from now on.

here's the screenshot, but you can expect some new contents, designs and visuals. it would be great to hear if you have ideas about content and design, so that i can develop my project.

Russian Constructivist Blog Design

this is the preview image of a designed theme which i prefer to call "in piece" for russian constructivists blog project.

the main characteristics of this design can be seen on visuals and typeface on the header, color scheme and cornered, rectangular gadgets.

visuals on the header are close-up illustrations of El Lissitzky's book 'about two squares' (on the left) and one of Kasimir Malevich's suprematist composition/painting (on the right).

this is the preview image of a designed theme which i prefer to call "news-like" for russian constructivists blog project.

the main characteristics of this design are big, delicate headline, red line seperators and color scheme. i tried a modern, minimalist touch on constructivist idea for using as a theme on a blog.