dikini.net - design

new season, new mood, new design, new look

vlado — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:59:18 -0400

I finally came about to changing the look of this blog. It is a new css-based design. It might get heavyish on some machines+browsers, but to be honest I can't care less about it.

This design is kind of a proof for the themability of drupal. It took me about 20 minutes to convert this from a plain html with embedded stylesheet to page.tpl.php+css.

If I can do it, any monkey should be able to.

Update: thanks to rkerr & |gatsby| I've fugured out that I have a slight problem in IE - unreadable. The bloody boxes and png transparency problems. Now it should be much better.

Thanks guys

x|s|p expressions mixing

vlado — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:16:08 -0400

To continue my random ramblings on the programmable web let's get into the other side. Theming.

These days it is a common place to have a theme engine available in almost any respectable web application. It's the result of the spearation of concerns mantra and the desire to get designers and arty types off your back, give them the freedom to do almost anything they want, while not bothirng yourself (as a developr/admin) with too much unnessesary support requests. Theme engines and ideas how to build them are plenty. They differ a lot. But let's try and dissect what are they doing, or more likely what should they do.

Laura's exhibition posters

vlado — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:38:28 -0500

They are done. I like them. The could possibly be improved, but I don't really want to overdo it. So I stop here.

Oh, and visit the exhibition- shot in the dark, city road, cardiff, december 16,2005-february 16,2005

The files are linked to below, so if you want to print flyers or posters and do some propaganda, go for it. I have perpped a cd with that, but couldn't burn it, my laptop's drive is borked. So use the web. And no nasty comments, or I'll shoot.

modular drupal css theme

vlado — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:21:32 -0500

I continued working on the current dikini.net theme. It is an intresting exercise. So here is what I aim for:

modular stylesheets: typography.css, framing.css, colors.css & friends
page.tpl.php should allow for a multicolumn design, with arbitrary column order
vertical positioning of elements within columns
no faux columns
a series of variation themes(styles), based on different layouts and colour schemes

Status:
1 - complete, including an unofficial, experimental split of drupal.css
2,3,4 - half there
5 - have a couple of

warholesque drupal panel

vlado — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:22:36 -0400

It seems I'm in a drawing mood. Inspired by Robert's Warhol drupal@linuxworld, here is an warholesque drupal panel - could be used in t-shirts, posters and other propaganda materials. OK, it is an overused, abused and non-original, but I personally like it. If you do too, feel free to use it. Just drop me a line or a photo if you do, please.

fat tap entry for the drupal design contest - london 2005 LinuxWorld

vlado — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:18:12 -0400

This is my own entry for the Drupal London LinuxWorld t-shirt design context. It is kind of British, Drupalish, and there is a hidden tux. Hope my tupence helps. This entry is based on my earlier fat tap drupal t-shirt design, which still remains largely unpublished. It needs more work. I modified it a bit to suit the occasion. What do you think? Where is the penguin?