Comments on: DIY Blog Design Crime Investigation http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:16:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Esz http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-17953 Esz Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:54:36 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-17953 Word. I am always very frustrated when fellow art bloggers insist on using a BLACK background. It turns me off completely. If they're gonna go for the 'art looks better against neutral' thing, a pale grey would work better. I read somewhere that you're meant to keep at least 50% between your text and your background colour. Eg 70% black text background works with 20% black text. Looks kinda nice too and is less boring than full black and white. Apply that with any colour and it loks pretty good. :-D Word.
I am always very frustrated when fellow art bloggers insist on using a BLACK background. It turns me off completely. If they’re gonna go for the ‘art looks better against neutral’ thing, a pale grey would work better. I read somewhere that you’re meant to keep at least 50% between your text and your background colour.
Eg 70% black text background works with 20% black text. Looks kinda nice too and is less boring than full black and white. Apply that with any colour and it loks pretty good. :-D

]]> By: Alicia - Sea Of Ghosts http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-17936 Alicia - Sea Of Ghosts Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:27:29 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-17936 I love that you made this post. These tips are so important, not just for bloggers but for all websites. The other day I stumbled upon a post someone made with a link to a site "How will your website look on the iPad". The poster said her website was going to need a separate style sheet for the iPad because her current website didn't fit. That made me so angry! Why doesn't it fit?! Who designed your website?! All my websites fit because not everyone has as big a screen as me. It's common sense. One thing I hear repeatedly from people I meet who read my blog is how much they like the cleanliness of my blog's theme. It's probably the best compliment I get. I think every blogger needs to read this. Thanks so much for raising awareness. Death to the ugly blog! I love that you made this post. These tips are so important, not just for bloggers but for all websites.

The other day I stumbled upon a post someone made with a link to a site “How will your website look on the iPad”. The poster said her website was going to need a separate style sheet for the iPad because her current website didn’t fit. That made me so angry! Why doesn’t it fit?! Who designed your website?! All my websites fit because not everyone has as big a screen as me. It’s common sense.

One thing I hear repeatedly from people I meet who read my blog is how much they like the cleanliness of my blog’s theme. It’s probably the best compliment I get.

I think every blogger needs to read this. Thanks so much for raising awareness. Death to the ugly blog!

]]> By: Lilian http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-14590 Lilian Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:44:41 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-14590 Thank you! Haha I started around 13, but over the last 3 years I've had less free time to practice and experiment. I'm trying to get back on track though, and finding communities will be a great help! Thank you, I really wanted a view of somebody who has already experienced the growth of becoming a graphic designer. Ah Christina <3 haha Thank you again! Thank you! Haha I started around 13, but over the last 3 years I’ve had less free time to practice and experiment. I’m trying to get back on track though, and finding communities will be a great help! Thank you, I really wanted a view of somebody who has already experienced the growth of becoming a graphic designer. Ah Christina <3 haha Thank you again!

]]> By: Shini http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-14457 Shini Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:01:59 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-14457 Owh, I don't really think I had a certain age for getting into an <em>ideal</em> of Graphic Design - but I think I was experimenting since I was 14-15, and the basics came like logic - you know, acquired aesthetics instead of learning from a book or at school. I think you should start experimenting as early as you can - then later in school you can learn all the global rules (typography for example), and solidify your basics. Believe it or not, I personally was able to practice because I was in a Christina Aguilera online fansite community when I was young, and it was so easy to make collages when you had an interesting model and hundreds of pictures of her, and of course somewhere to showcase that to. Other than that I lived in online communities that taught eachother how to use photoshop and the like. I think it helps to be in an active community or a relationship with someone that will constructively criticize your work. Owh, I don’t really think I had a certain age for getting into an ideal of Graphic Design – but I think I was experimenting since I was 14-15, and the basics came like logic – you know, acquired aesthetics instead of learning from a book or at school. I think you should start experimenting as early as you can – then later in school you can learn all the global rules (typography for example), and solidify your basics.

Believe it or not, I personally was able to practice because I was in a Christina Aguilera online fansite community when I was young, and it was so easy to make collages when you had an interesting model and hundreds of pictures of her, and of course somewhere to showcase that to. Other than that I lived in online communities that taught eachother how to use photoshop and the like. I think it helps to be in an active community or a relationship with someone that will constructively criticize your work.

]]> By: Lilian http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-14436 Lilian Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:39:02 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-14436 Hello, I love your blog! Your posts are amazing! Thank you for all your DIYs! I love them! I was wondering, at what age did you really get into the ideal of graphic designing, like start experimenting and getting used to the basics? Hello, I love your blog! Your posts are amazing! Thank you for all your DIYs! I love them! I was wondering, at what age did you really get into the ideal of graphic designing, like start experimenting and getting used to the basics?

]]> By: Petite Esthète http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-11079 Petite Esthète Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:09:58 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-11079 You seem to know your way around a computer, so maybe you can answer this for me: why is it that, when I upload pictures from photobucket onto my blog, they appear cropped? By this I mean that half the image is cropped off. I can't seem to get my pictures to appear bigger than the standard blogpost "large" setting (which, to anone else, is not large at all)... Help? http://petiteesthete.blogspot.com You seem to know your way around a computer, so maybe you can answer this for me: why is it that, when I upload pictures from photobucket onto my blog, they appear cropped? By this I mean that half the image is cropped off. I can’t seem to get my pictures to appear bigger than the standard blogpost “large” setting (which, to anone else, is not large at all)… Help?

http://petiteesthete.blogspot.com

]]> By: irose http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-8330 irose Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:16:32 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-8330 Thank YOU so much for this, it really helped me and your blog inspired mine!! Please check it out everyone http://youresogansta.blogspot.com/ Thank YOU so much for this, it really helped me and your blog inspired mine!! Please check it out everyone

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]]> By: chichi http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-7948 chichi Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:39:53 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-7948 thank you for the tips! i love your blog. :) thank you for the tips! i love your blog. :)

]]> By: holly http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356&cpage=2#comment-6188 holly Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:47:08 +0000 http://www.parkandcube.com/?p=1356#comment-6188 thanks so much for this post! i recently started my own blog and this post has helped infinitely better than any of the blogger 'getting started' tips (granted i didn't really pay them much attention...) thanks so much for this post!
i recently started my own blog and this post has helped infinitely better than any of the blogger ‘getting started’ tips (granted i didn’t really pay them much attention…)

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