After few days of hardwork, tonnes of excitement and frustration, finally my first ever self-designed WordPress template is done and up! Although is not very finalize yet, but I decided to activate it. Now is midnight in Malaysia and I have to go to sleep now. I will share with you my experience of creating this template some time in future š !
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Create your own font with FontStruct… for free!
Today I found an interesting website call FontStruct. It is an free online building tool that allow users to create a set of fonts with user friendly interface and intuitive tools. With this online font building tool, font creation is never been this easy!
I actually registered myself and try to build a font. The tools are easy to use, but font creation is no easy job. I think with a little vision, practice and creativity, everyone can create your own font and can be download and use straight away! Be sure to check out the font gallery too, which the fonts are created by other users. The fonts look real good! Continue reading
SHIFT logo design competition winner announced
Last month, I participated in SHIFT logo design competition and the winner of this competition was announced today. The logo design entry that selected to represent SHIFT next 10 years is by Simon Sparkes. Big congratulations to him!
My design does not make the cut which I felt a little sad. But I was very amazed by the originality and creativity by other submissions that made into the Excellent Works. The designs were truly out of the box. Once again, big congratulations to the winner and everyone that nominated into Excellent Works in this wonderful competition.
Can SaveTheDevelopers save the developers?
Recently I stumbled upon an interesting campaign website called SaveTheDevelopers.org. The aim of this website is to tell everyone in this world upgrade or change the web browsers to the latest version and dumb that evil Internet Explorer 6! So to make the campaign works, a small JS file can be installed in any website so that a message will prompt out for those who still using that evil browser “Upgrade or switch your browser now!”
Every web developers and designers knew that IE 6 is a nightmare browser, because a well coded website using standard CSS will turns out ugly in IE 6. So a lot of precious time and energy was spent just to make things right in that browser. Why care about the outdated browser? This is because there is still a lot of people using it. So born this website aimed to save the developer. But will this campaign successful? Continue reading
Welcome spring with sakura songs
Spring is just around the corner. When thinking of spring season, many people will thinking of the warm and beautiful cherry blossom or sakura. Around the end of March to beginning of April is the best time to view the blossoming sakura or o-hanami in Tokyo and Kyoto area. Sakura is a very beautiful flower and I had seen many beautiful shots of sakura and sadly I did not experienced it by myself. Fortunately I have sakura-themed songs be with me.
Below is the playlist of songs that is related to sakura. I always like sakura songs because the flower gave the artistic feeling and it feels good to listen. The first song of the playlist is the famous traditional Japanese folk song “Sakura“. I remember I sang the song before during my primary school’s singing class. Plus, there are many artists sang sakura songs in various music genres but mostly are calm, beautiful and cheerful. Continue reading
Tatsuro Yamashita – Zutto Issho Sa
Normally when I watch a Japanese drama, I will skip the ending credits part. But in “Bara no nai Hanaya” I let it played until the end because the song played in the ending credits sequence is very nice to listen! It is the drama theme song call “Zutto Issho sa” written and sang by one of the most influential Japanese musician Tatsuro Yamashita.
“Bara no nai Hanaya” is my most favorite drama of the winter 2008 season. The story is nice and engaging, the relationship is very twisting and interesting. It is not an ordinary getsu 9 love drama. I’m definitely recommend this drama to everyone. “Zutto Issho sa” portrays the look and feel of the drama, and the lyric is beautiful too. Continue reading to listen to the song with lyric and translation! Continue reading
Jeans textures free download
Jeans is my most favorite pants and I wear it almost everyday when going out because it is nice and very tough. The colors and textures or tactile are also very unique which will give different kinds of feels. Here I scanned some jeans to create free jeans texture to share with you all.
Besides that, I also found some jeans texture out there which is good in quality and compiled them into a list, mainly sites from CG Textures, Deviant Art and Stock Exchange. Continue reading to check out the jeans textures!
Tesco kids street art by Banksy
Today when I was surfing through Wooster Collective, I stumbled upon this stunning piece of street art by one of my most favorite street artist Banksy. It shows a video footage shoot by Jeremy Gibbs on how the people reacts to the art when passing by that area. It is very relieve that many people are appreciating the artwork by stopping by and observe it, or take out camera and take a picture.
This street art appears in Essex road London depicting three little children, one is raising the plastic bag of Tesco to the top of the pole just like raising a flag. While the other two children stand slightly further away and putting their left hand on their chest with serious face looking at the plastic bag, as if they are showing respect to Tesco, the biggest shopping mart in UK. Continue reading
The essential list of CSS tips, tricks & hacks
I had been working on CSS heavily for this couple of weeks. Because I’m not an experienced CSS coder, I encountered many problems and get frustrated in order to get the code right and functional on majority web browsers. Luckily there is a lot of useful CSS tips and tricks can be found on the Internet that helped me solved many problems and make me smile.
I found many articles on teaching the best ways to work with CSS. It is very handy and I learn a lot from them. At here, I compiled a list useful CSS hacks, tips and tricks so that everyone can quickly find the links and start learning from the experts and becoming a smart CSS elite! Continue reading
Bottle Buster is super fun!
Bottle Buster is a exciting and carnival feel ball throwing 3D casual game that has amazing graphics and realistic physics like no other casual games. It was fun and addictive to play. The game consists of 40 challenging levels with 10 different environment themes and tonnes of stuffed toys and trophies to won! And this game was developed right here in John Galt Games studio in Kuala Lumpur.
I had to mentioned the excellent art team because they produce the amazing graphics which cheers up the whole game experience, gotta love that smiling ball. Besides that, the sound and the physics was well done too. Bottle Buster actually was started a year ago and although it was just a casual game, but it took quite a long period of time to make it great. Our studio here had done numerous rounds of game testing just to make it right. This is the first time I can really feel that a game is not easy to make. Continue reading