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New design, fixes and back to business!
It has been so long since my last post on this thing that anyone would think I’m dead or something. But I’m far from dead and back with some updates for this forgotten space.
Do you notice any change here? Of course not if this is your first visit, but this design you’re seeing is one of my latest creations. I took the same theme I designed before and modified it further to look just as you’re watching now (you may gonna think it’s ‘fugly’ if you are watching it from Internet Explorer 6, because it doesn’t support PNG transparencies).
Another thing I did was to fix some internal stuff with the blog. There were some database errors that actually prevented me from posting stuff here. After realizing that, I always lose the motivation to write and I was like that for months until now. Now this thing has been fixed and it’s running the latest version of Wordpress.
Finally, I made this website a little bit less blog-centered, since I won’t be always here to write stuff on it. One of the consequences of that is having sections in the sidebar, such as the portfolio section (which is still under construction) and some featured posts. This part is not ready, I want to put content above the blog entries on the homepage to show featured projects (but that will be when I actually have stuff to show).
Let’s see if this modifications and experiments I did will be here to stay.
Oh, as for the new design, feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated.
Blue21: My first Wordpress theme
Blue21 is a simple and clean theme for Wordpress that I have designed.
It has a pleasing color scheme, nice gradients and a familiar look if you’ve been working with the Wordpress Default Theme, since it’s based on it. It’s also Ad-ready, because the middle column has been reserved for a skyscraper banner, but you can get rid of it if you wish and put more content, or go the other way and put more ads.
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Mixalia: My first web project
Every day new web applications are released aiming to make our lives easier, which is something you can actually see by yourself by reading any of the thousands of blogs and websites that discuss, review and create buzz around them.
As a person who enjoys reading sites like Mashable, Lifehacker or Downloadsquad, I always wondered about the possibility of making my own web application. Many of them are astonishingly complex, while others are quite simple… still I had no idea about what to do, until I stumbled upon PopUrls some time ago.
PopUrls is a well known mashup of the most popular social news websites, showing the headlines of those sites in a single page. The concept is fairly simple since it just shows part of the content from the RSS feeds that each site publishes, so I started to work on a similar website on my free time.
After a few weeks, Mixalia was finally ready. It’s in Spanish and the content focus is kind of different than in PopUrls, since it also fetches headlines from websites in several topics like general news, sports news, videogames, science, TV & entertainment, etc. On the other hand, this one is simpler than PopUrls since it lacks the interface customization options. The backend was made with the Simplepie PHP script, which makes the feed parsing job a piece of cake.
It may not look or feel like a Web 2.0 site, but some well known websites in Spanish have already wrote about it, driving some loyal traffic to the website.