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Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 18:18 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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A New Look

changelog v1.07
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* Skinning functionality has arrived! Please chatterbox any bugs found.

* Release of new default skin, Cumulation. A few Easter eggs to be discovered, as usual.


Atalanta vs Cumulation

Fresh, light look, huh? Don't worry, the old skin (now codenamed Atalanta) remains available, with the skins being as backward-compatible as Windows products *ahem*. No, really, about everything works in both skins, though it was somewhat tedious to adapt the first time round.

As for how to switch between skins, eet eez velly simple - skin swopping is the first option under display preferences, which is accessed by clicking the word "optio" on the extreme left of the page (those pseudolatin words cycle through stuff like the colored boxes did in Atalanta). Select the skin you want, click Save to Cookie and you're done.


Garish, garish

Cumulation didn't come out exactly as I initially envisaged it to. Erm, actually it only barely resembles what I had in mind. The statues were supposed to be in stone, bronze, silver and gold (as can be observed above), there was supposed to be a mass of people at their bases, there was supposed to be an urban landscape in the background, etc etc.

I got all the way to the colours of the statues before I knew it didn't work. It looked 'orrible.

Likely a more skilled artist would have been able to wring it out, but I was nowhere near that technically adept, and I was looking at a loss of ten-plus hours of brushwork, with no hope of salvaging my initial vision in the short-term. It took a night of thinking in bed (a habit which I have got to kick someday so that I can actually fall asleep in less than an hour) before a solution, which you now see, struck me. Back to basics. Minimalist shades of grey. Simple is good (in websites at least).

Thus, back to Photoshop, convert to grayscale, tweak brightness and contrast, presto! Something presentable, and at the very least shouldn't trigger any epileptic fits like the ill-advised London 2012 Olympics logo. And it cost some US$800 000, so I'm ahead on the budget too.

Then again, I believe that taste can be cultivated. Just look at my site logo when I was in Secondary school (can tell I liked green even then):


My eyes, my eyes!

Oh my *beep*.



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