Redesign is complete now!

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1385 days
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This is an official announcement!
The site's redesign has been completed successfully, although in the emotive rush that comes after an accomplished job I didn't test the new design thoroughly so there might be errors that will indeed be corrected as soon as they are found.

I'm not even going to take a look at IE's way of displaying it. I simply don't care. If it looks bad to you because you run IE, get Firefox. This website has a perfect valid html markup and CSS, checked with the w3c validators, so I just don't care about IE!
Wow, saying that feels very good! It took a lot of worrying and re-programming out of my way, which is always nice :)

Anyway, I really hope you enjoy this new design, and if you don't let me know what you don't like, I'll try to change it!
(Even if you like it consider commenting something like "Hey, nice design, I like it"... it just feels good from time to time...

I'll restart posting as usual from now on, so don't stop coming!

First sponsorship in my blog

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1386 days
by in General talk


Personally it is quite a good idea to pay for the bandwidth and space online, since they pay users who make a small review of certain products related to the site's topic from time to time.
You chose the topics and the products and you write the review yourself. It is quite a good startup for all bloggers I guess...
So well, that will be it for my announcement. I am going to try out this marketing program and I'll tell you my experience and opinion after some weeks of testing.
One thing I would recommend though is to have at least 1 PR in Google. As you can see this blog has none, it is still too early for Google to give me some PR, but it will really help you get amazing payments for your reviews, and I'm talking of a PR above 3 to be "eligible" for those campaigns. But then also comes the question: Should I give up my blogging space for ads? and I guess it is not so bad. You can always post it right before you post a real thing so it never really appears on your homepage if you want and have set it to that option...
So well, I'll tell you how it went after a while!
Have fun developing ;)

Keeping up with my redesign

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1387 days
by in Branding, CSS, Graphic Design, Layout/Styling, Photoshop, Web-related, Weird stuff

As I posted in my previous post I'm redesigning my blog, so I have finally finished my PhotoShop draft and started coding it.
The HTML is pretty straight forward, a few layers, floated divs and intelligent use of margins and paddings... if it can deserve the use of intelligent.

Here you can see the development page:
http://urbanoalvarez.es/test/

I'm still having some problems with the center divs, those floated things never get to behave the way they are supposed to... It's one of those kitches that makes Web Designing (Not developing) interesting, yet exasperating, and somehow addicting ;)

So well, I'll keep on working as hard as possible to deliver you my dearest reader the best design... (Ok let's be serious, I'll work about half an hour a day, until a CSS error appears in IE, just the moment in which I desperately scream, take a coffee and run out for a walk... But well, it's nice to imagine the other way sometimes)
I'm done complaining and pretending I'm a great web designer that has no problems at all with IE, but well, I'm a web ... whatever word ... talking to another web ... whatever you like to call yourself... right?

Have fun and enjoy design, css, html and all this we've grown to love

My first redesign attempt

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1388 days
by in CSS, Graphic Design, Photoshop

After about half an hour struggling with photoshop brushes, vector graphics, textures... I kind of came up with a fist design which I found OK. It will not be final, it's still very far from being the design I want but I've started to walk the way towards my new blog design :)

Here is a screenshot of the header:

First Blog Design

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For comments use the comments section below ;). Please tell me what you think, if you think something about it...
I still need to work a lot on it, but well, at least now I've started.

Urbano’s Blog redesign

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1390 days
by in Branding, CSS, Graphic Design, Layout/Styling, Photoshop, Web-related

Hi guys,
Urbano's Blog has been around enough time to get some very decent monthly traffic, and I personally think that it deserves a new design/redesign.
I'm thinking of a nice CSS/Artwork design, with high-contrast colors, and nice combinations.
Some of the design ideas I've been looking at are this:

  1. Cheb 2.0
  2. Decadora
  3. Lucid Motives (Just the colors in this one... )
  4. Dezinerfolio
  5. emtwo (Layout)
  6. 4design (Colors and artwork)

And well many others I forgot long ago :S

I'll keep on posting the progress, but the new design should be out in less than a week I expect. If you have suggestions, feedback, or things you'd like tell me on the comments, I like to hear stuff. I feel like people actually read this blog, and StatPress isn't lying ;)

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