Design, Inspiration & Education

Rob — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:26:16 +0000

As a web developer and someone that maintains a website, I think it is important to keep your content and designs fresh and updated. You can’t let things get stale. There is a familiarity about your website that readers come to be comfortable with but that isn’t always a good thing. I think people want to be surprised and know that your website is a living and working extension of yourself. I haven’t updated my theme in quite a while so I thought tonight was a good time. I have been playing with some concepts with some other websites and I wanted to see how they worked with mine.

Change Is Good…

In light of spring and the changing of the seasons I’ve put together some minor updates to the theme of my website. Although I wasn’t exactly going for any “look” in particular, I like the metallic feel and the burnt-in oriental flower background in the header. I think it came out really cool. I usually like dark colors as I think it’s a little easier to read off of, but maybe that’s just me.

With that in mind I stuck with a darker gray and light font as apposed to the black that overwhelmed the design before. I changed the colors of headings to stand out more and added an underline to them to separate content throughout my blogs.

These changes took only a few hours and to me that is the beauty of a website that is theme or template based. Making major look and feel changes can be applied site wide extremely easily. I hope this inspires some of you all to refresh your websites and keep things fresh.

Back In School

So after a five week break from school due to “technical difficulties” with my account, I’m back. Today was my first day being back in and it felt good. Everyone likes to feel like they’re being responsible with their future. I’m taking a Sociology class and I’m looking forward to it. Not because of the work but because it makes me feel constructive; I feel like I’m accomplishing something. It’s a self-serving feeling but hey, in the end, I’m better for it and I just may finish that degree.

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Pictures From Hyde Park, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rob — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:44:16 +0000

A few weeks ago I took a drive up to Hyde Park National Forest/Sangre De Cristo Mountains here in Santa Fe, New Mexico and took around 200 photos with my Nikon D60. I had a lot of fun and got to rediscover an old hobby of mine, photography. I hadn’t had a nice DSLR camera in a long time and it was a really cool experience to get out and snap a few picture of the beautiful Northern New Mexico scenery and sunset.

The day was awesome. Light rain and clouds surrounded the Santa Fe and Los Alamos areas and just as the sun was setting down everything cleared up perfectly. It was a much needed break for me to get away and enjoy the calming silence of nature. Enjoy the pictures!

Photo Opportunities: A Sunny Afternoon