Fractured State » This Blog http://www.fractured-state.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:44:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Minimal Theme http://www.fractured-state.com/2010/07/new-minimal-theme/ http://www.fractured-state.com/2010/07/new-minimal-theme/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:54:41 +0000 admin http://www.fractured-state.com/?p=449 I just finished redoing the Fractured State theme with a simpler grid based theme. I used the 960 grid system because it’s super straight forward and I’ve used it on a couple of commercial projects in the past. The other thing I tried with this theme is using custom post types for the portfolio projects, each project is a post with a custom taxonomy for the skills/technologies. I then set a featured image and upload the rest of the pictures I want for the project and all the thumbnails are generated automatically with the Autothumb plugin. I also ended up writing a function to print out the thumbnails for each project. I know WordPress already has a gallery short tag that will output the uploaded pictures but it generates this huge mess of HTML that is really not elegant and I thought I should do better for my personal site.

I’ve also designed it so it should degrade nicely with no javascript. The only things that I’ve used javascript for is the filtering of projects on the projects page, the lightbox and showing/hiding the archives and categories, none of which are super crucial to navigating the site in the long run.

]]> http://www.fractured-state.com/2010/07/new-minimal-theme/feed/ 0 Redesign http://www.fractured-state.com/2008/09/redesign/ http://www.fractured-state.com/2008/09/redesign/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:01:27 +0000 admin http://blog.fractured-state.com/?p=257 The new version of Fractured State is up!

I’m hoping to keep a regular stream of posts going about the things I find interesting as a designer and as an artist. I’m also going to using this new site as my portfolio for the time being as well. If you want to see some of the previous work that I’ve completed please feel free to look through the links on the right.

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