Posted by
Ech Kay
at
10:01 PM
It's taken really long. A month to be precise. But I'm happy at the outcome.
I picked up this template (the current one) from a free wordpress themes website and changed the theme code to make it compatible with blogger. It wont be correct on my part to take credit for either the layout or the code. All I did was that I slogged hard, acted smart, and brought together hundreds of code snippets and put them in the correct places to get the final outcome. It was like piecing together one huge jigsaw puzzle having photographs of different characters! And after the puzzle was complete, I erased out characters that I didn't want to see, and put in a few of my own!! It has been one big mix-and-match exercise.
Here, I would like to acknowledge the help that I got from websites around the world-wide-web.
1. CSSPlay: For all CSS-related issues; Drop-Down Menu. When it comes to CSS, Stu Nicholls is God!
2. Beautiful Beta: For Blogger-Posts related issues.
3. Looks Good Works Well: For good web-design tips.
4. phydeaux3: For random wordpress-templates related problems.
5. Web Designs Tips and Tricks: For all my "silly" (And not-so-silly) doubts related to HTML and CSS.
6. http://seo.vintip.com/ - For SEO-related and Google adsense related problems and virtually every other query.
7. Mr. Matt Cutts - For his SEO-related tips.
8. Last but not the least - GOOGLE!
In fact, if I compiled all that I read from the above mentioned links, it would make the most comprehensive "Build Your Own Blogger Template" tutorial. I'll also add an elaborate post about how I went around building the template.
I call myself a software engineer. If I could say that there was a design model that I followed for developing this website, I'd call it the chiwda model! The requirements kept changing almost every hour.. The designing took far longer than it should have. And the testing hasn't quite been comprehensive. In short, I decided the requirements, designed the code; and did the testing: all by myself. So there might be quite a few issues that I overlooked and didn't address.
A special thanks to Tejas for helping me out in testing the template on IE and Firefox for basic issues. Shubhada looked over the content of the site (especially the header) and helped me in finalizing it.
The last couple of weeks came across as quite a revelation for me. I realized that I can be creative. Very creative. But only if I want to, for, I can be more lazy than I can be creative!
God lies in the smaller detail.. someone has rightly said. So in my opinion, this website isn't still complete. However, today I am pushing it live because I have already exceeded my deadline by more than 10 days! Coming up with something that is perfect and flawless is one thing, and taking ages to do so is quite another. I'll add other stuff in the next couple of days.
-HK.
10:00 pm; 27th September '08
P. S.: Please let me know, if you find dead links, or if pages don't load up, especially when attempting to write comments.
Permalink
I picked up this template (the current one) from a free wordpress themes website and changed the theme code to make it compatible with blogger. It wont be correct on my part to take credit for either the layout or the code. All I did was that I slogged hard, acted smart, and brought together hundreds of code snippets and put them in the correct places to get the final outcome. It was like piecing together one huge jigsaw puzzle having photographs of different characters! And after the puzzle was complete, I erased out characters that I didn't want to see, and put in a few of my own!! It has been one big mix-and-match exercise.
Here, I would like to acknowledge the help that I got from websites around the world-wide-web.
1. CSSPlay: For all CSS-related issues; Drop-Down Menu. When it comes to CSS, Stu Nicholls is God!
2. Beautiful Beta: For Blogger-Posts related issues.
3. Looks Good Works Well: For good web-design tips.
4. phydeaux3: For random wordpress-templates related problems.
5. Web Designs Tips and Tricks: For all my "silly" (And not-so-silly) doubts related to HTML and CSS.
6. http://seo.vintip.com/ - For SEO-related and Google adsense related problems and virtually every other query.
7. Mr. Matt Cutts - For his SEO-related tips.
8. Last but not the least - GOOGLE!
In fact, if I compiled all that I read from the above mentioned links, it would make the most comprehensive "Build Your Own Blogger Template" tutorial. I'll also add an elaborate post about how I went around building the template.
I call myself a software engineer. If I could say that there was a design model that I followed for developing this website, I'd call it the chiwda model! The requirements kept changing almost every hour.. The designing took far longer than it should have. And the testing hasn't quite been comprehensive. In short, I decided the requirements, designed the code; and did the testing: all by myself. So there might be quite a few issues that I overlooked and didn't address.
A special thanks to Tejas for helping me out in testing the template on IE and Firefox for basic issues. Shubhada looked over the content of the site (especially the header) and helped me in finalizing it.
The last couple of weeks came across as quite a revelation for me. I realized that I can be creative. Very creative. But only if I want to, for, I can be more lazy than I can be creative!
God lies in the smaller detail.. someone has rightly said. So in my opinion, this website isn't still complete. However, today I am pushing it live because I have already exceeded my deadline by more than 10 days! Coming up with something that is perfect and flawless is one thing, and taking ages to do so is quite another. I'll add other stuff in the next couple of days.
-HK.
10:00 pm; 27th September '08
P. S.: Please let me know, if you find dead links, or if pages don't load up, especially when attempting to write comments.
|
Labels:
2-column
,
blogger template
,
CSS
,
CSS drop down menu
,
HTML
,
jigsaw puzzle
,
New look
,
SEO
,
widgets
7 comments:
Hey HK,
I like what you've done to the layout, looks good!
-The Lam
@ The Lam..
Thanks a lot! :)
Your hard work has indeed paid great dividends!
The header rocks! So does the new tagline! Space is utilised very well!
Kudos!
@ Shubhi..
Thanks to you for the new tagline!! :)
Well done bro! The template looks fabulous. Rocking work!! I also see that though you have uploaded the template, you are constantly adding new and new stuff to it!! Bravo! Keep up the good work!
@ Tejas..
Thank you :)
re kya bat hai bahut sahi!congo!
Post a Comment