Rob Parker » Design

Vintage Quality

Rob Parker — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:43:53 +0000

Having a poke around on an old hosting account I had and looking at the designs, they were pretty good! They were simple, effective and colourful, and much as I love it, this design isn’t really is it! I love the contrast on the ‘second’ headers and the boxes on the home, still, I’m sticking with simple and dark for the moment!

Have a look at this, this and this if you want to know what I’m talking about!

Happy Easter!

Just The Odd Few Tweaks

Rob Parker — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:57:20 +0000

Just made a few little tweaks this site needed after the more major (if quickly done) design change a while back. There’s new date, category and tag displays for each post as well as new icons for all of those and for the comment section on posts. Its only little but its a nice touch!

A couple of other tweaks too, including a ‘Donate’ and slight footer simplification as well as an improvement to ‘Image Attachment’ pages which frankly never made sense before.

Enjoy! I’m pretty pleased

A Brand New Design for 2010

Rob Parker — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:56:18 +0000

Well, largely a new design anyway, at at least a total change in colour scheme. This site had had the old look for too long now, and its always good to have a refresh. This new look brings in some nice colours and an interesting approach to navigation and movement around the site.

The style is essentially dark blue/grey, with a new header design as well. The logo has been replaced with that which appears on most other websites. The new smaller links bar at the top provides links to my most popular other places (Facebook and Twitter) as well as RSS Feeds and also some of my other projects. The main links section for the site has been replaced with a new, friendly message which also acts as clear links for the site content.

Improved and simplified CSS has also been used.

At the moment there are still a few rough edges, with essentially the site structure still the same. There will be some future change to templates to better improve what is possible. The development of other sites has taught me alot more about all the things we can do with WordPress, and I’m keen to use them here too!

Anyway, geekyness over. Thanks, and I hope you like it!

The Powazek Look

Rob Parker — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:38:28 +0000

Found this website today with all the iPad hype, and I love the design. The colours, the hover, the simplicity, it all comes together to form such a nice site. Really very good.

New Design for the New Year

Rob Parker — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:15:23 +0000

I’m thinking it is about time for a new design adjustment. A major redesign might be a big challenge, and frankly, I’ve got better things to be doing! However, a new header is certainly on the cards. Here’s what I’m thinking this evening…

From this to this…

I like it

Install WordPress MU in a subdirectory

Rob Parker — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:00 +0000

I tried to do this this afternoon, and as before, I found something really annoying happening. It created all sorts of error messages after the initial upload of files.

Here’s the solution…

1. Open “/mu/wp-blog-header.php”
2. Locate line 9: if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') && !file_exists( dirname( dirname(__FILE__) ) . '/wp-config.php')) {
3. Edit this line to be: if ( !file_exists( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-config.php') ) {

Hope this is useful sometime, I know it will be to me!

Ears are the only part of your body that keeps growing your whole life

Rob Parker — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:22:28 +0000

How interesting!

I haven’t checked it, but I just noticed it on the packaging of something I got in Paris a few years ago.

New Icons

Rob Parker — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:42:36 +0000

I am very pleased with this, but just a short note to credit the brand new icons that are on the homepage. I think they look brilliant, and sadly, this time, I pinched them from elsewhere.

But, I would like to add a credit to www.profimagazin.cz and thank them for licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Oh look, a new design!

Rob Parker — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:33:51 +0000

Amazing as it is, I get bored at home, so playing with this entertains me. Its blue, and it has a much simplified homepage which was inspired by another site I was browsing earlier today. I really wanted the background to be a lighter colour (as I like this website to look light and bright) and I wanted to use this photo…

…but I couldn’t find the original so I had to settle for a cropped load of sky from another nice photo I have. I think it looks pretty decent, although I really cannot be bothered to test it with stupid Internet Explorer.

Enjoy! It’s likely that it won’t be here for long!

Be Sociable – Social Web Plugin

Rob Parker — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:25:41 +0000

Got, so I got a new toy in the form of the Sociable plugin. It adds all the little things you can see below this post (if you’re viewing it on the website), and they are all links to post the post your looking at to any of the services the icons represent. Sorry, that made no sense! Anyway, if you’ve got delicious or twitter or even facebook, try it!