This past week, I got started working on the Organized Chaos website. I made a first impression of its design on gimp, using a few dozen grunge brushes all around. It’s another two column design overlaying a decent grunge background (which I think is the only good part of the design). I put the logo and navigation in a pitch black top section, with the links set in the Times New Yorker font. I’m not completely satisfied with the outcome. The top section and the content areas seem fairly plain and bland, but I’m sticking with this current version of the design until I can get out of my temporary loss of ideas…
Please, please leave a comment with your opinion, because I desperately need advice/encouragement/criticism/whatever if I want to do a good job on the website!
- Listening to: Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
- Mood: Lonely/A bit nostalgic
I’ve returned from the horror and darkness of the realms of homework (temporarily, just so I don’t get my hopes up that high) and managed to write something here for the first time in a month. A lot has happened in the past few weeks, besides me having to get through every single tedious project, stressful test, hour-long piano practice, and grueling soccer game. As for the website, 1,900 people have visted Shadow Logic 2,753 times. (As of June 16th, 10:15 PM EST)
After spending two weeks researching water filtration and writing a 10-page report on it, I was devastated from exhaustion. Then I had to perform an experiment on it and put stuff about it on a triboard. The Science Symposium was on June 5th, and I spent 6 hours standing up, explaining my wonderful findings to dozens of students, a third of whom weren’t that interested in hearing a 3-minute long lecture on a water filter that only half-works (and I don’t blame them). I scraped an 88 for my efforts, with my only decent part of my project, the research paper, not being graded yet.
I updated the Randomness and Boredom gallery with a couple of photos (half of which are from more than a month ago). It seems to be my most popular photo gallery, so I’ll be sure to add some more photos on there soon. I also took down the poll system, since it took up too much space. I took a final poll to gather opinion on whether I should take it down or not because people weren’t voting a lot. 75% of the vote wanted me to keep the poll system up, but 4 people voted out of the 20+ visitors that come here everyday =P
I’m excited about my new project for my friend/client (can amateurs have clients? I’m not so sure), Manas. I’m currently setting up and designing a website for his recently formed punk/alternative rock band, Organized Chaos. I’m hoping to have the website done in 2-3 weeks, complete with some of their performance footage and a blog. I’ll fill you in on its progress until then.
In the mean time, happy five days till summer! (and five days until my piano recital)
- Listening to: Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
- Mood: Worried (until Sunday)
To those of you mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day! And this applies to mothers, grandmothers, and godmothers only. I greeted my friend “Happy Mother’s Day” earlier, forgetting he was a boy, and if a boy was a mother, well, um, you know…
I had enough time today to make something nice for my mom. Obviously, since I like to make graphics, and this website is mostly about graphics, and posts like this always have something to do with graphics, I made my mom a wallpaper.
I’m not in a very good mood though - I played one of the worst soccer games of my life in the rec league, and my science symposium project is getting me stressed out. My topic is water filtration, and it’s really interesting, even if it’s just dumping a gallon or two of water into a hollow bucket filled up with a pile of gravel and charcoal that catch all the water’s dirt and chemicals. But I have to build the filter and the triboard in less than two weeks, and pressure from my parents, teachers, and classmates already way ahead of me isn’t going to help me at all. I can’t wait for June to come =/
Don’t let my complaining ruin your day. Again, happy Mother’s Day! And for those of you who’ve come here for my graphics tutorials, you gave Resizing Fade Effect 1,056 pageviews in the past 30 days, which is more than double the pageviews for the rest of the entire website. Guess I should say thanks for that, and I’ll be sure to add a new one soon.
- Listening to: With Me - Sum 41
- Mood: Depressed
Looks like I’m a bit behind on posts again, but I’ve quite a few things to cover today. I’m in a good mood as compared to the way I was in my last post XD. First of all, happy Passover for those of you who celebrate it. Second, my birthday is tomorrow, and for once I don’t have any homework to worry about this time. Plus, I’m off from school, so I have the whole day to myself and my family 
I’m still sick with a cold though. Strangely enough, for the past few years I’ve always been sick within two days of my birthday. Go figure.
This weekend I spent a couple of days toying with the IFS Fractal filter (I know, such a dorky name!) on Gimp and came up with a nice wallpaper that I decided to put on here:
Download: 800 x 600 // 1024 x 768 // 1280 x 960
Once I was done adding that to the Resources page I logged on to Google Analytics. (For those of you who don’t know, it’s a service that lets you track visits, pageviews, etc. on your website.) I clicked View Reports and the first thing I saw was this:
Apparently the number of visits to my website had jumped from 5 to 71 in one day. Confused, I went to the Referring Sites page. Gimpology gave me 65 visits, so I went on there and saw my tutorial smack on top.
So thank you Kasrak for earning Shadow Logic a bit of attention! You got me thinking for my next tutorial already. I’ll make sure it’ll break the 70 hit mark again. And thank you to everyone who visits my website. I’m always open for feedback, so keep those comments coming!
- Listening to: What I've Done - Linkin Park (well I listen to this song all the time to begin with)
- Mood: Happy
It’s that time of year again… Rec soccer practices/games inexplicably occuring on the only days I’m not available to play; the growing threat of asthma attacks haunting me; the impossible mission of beating eight 8th graders for six spots on the 100/200m track meet team; brain-racking piano songs to learn; 25-pound backpacks to lug home everyday; frantically searching for a book to use for my reading log due in two days; doing some last-minute studying for an oh-so-important-to-your-report-card-grade science test on invertebrate phyla that I have to get at least a 95 on (in addition to a week’s worth of study guide/chapter outline making); studying for yet another test on the French revolution; the prospect of having to somehow write a soap opera on the French Revolution (haha); another skit to write about a guy smoking in a bathroom and blaming it on somebody else (don’t ask); broken hearts (okay sorry, bad joke); and whatever else could make my day.
I love my life. Definitely can’t wait for more good luck to befall me. XD
Btw, I added a couple of photos over the weekend. Check them out if you don’t have as much homework as I do right now =P
- Listening to: Given Up - Linkin Park
- Mood: Tired/depressed
