One geek still howling at the moon
This is a new release of the site’s theme, Dark Days. In no particular order, the changes are:
Fixed typos in code.
Added a rotating banner on top.
Made display changes outside of header. Posts should be more centered now.
Oh, lots of changes, for sure.
I hereby declare bhalash.com 2.0 live after two weeks of hacking themes and galleries together. I was entirely inspired to reimage bhalash.com by Eric Scouten’s excellent website, although in the end I decided to stick with a Wordpress base instead of Drupal.
I combined two existing Wordpress themes, Hello 2007 by Fen and Simple La Bob by Bob, to create the new look, which I call (unsurprisingly) Dark Days, although I have heavily modified every aspect of each. After I update some of the other content on bhalash.com I will begin to work on making the entire code of the site portable for release under the Creative Commons because I’m fairly sure a photographer or two out there will enjoy a photo-friendly theme.
The other big element of my site was Simple Viewer, an embeddable flash gallery. The gallery was the hard part, as I was trying to marry together two separate programs that weren’t supposed to go together.
It was interesting, I learned a alot, and I hope to put it into practice more in future. For the sake of it, the tools and programs I used were:
Wordpress
Airtight Simple Viewer
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop
Mozilla Firefox (with FireFTP)
NcFTP
Vim
TextDrive TextMate
Fabian’s iTerm
Microsoft Wordpad
I go now to my rest.
I got off the bus from the Strip today and for the first time I actually looked at the building.
Well, it’s ready for release. The Story, or at least the part of it that I both consider to be finished and able to stand on it’s own. I intend this to be ultimately part of a larger story, and I will edit it as such (some of the exposition would fit better elsewhere).
Anyways.
Express Elevator is set in the year 2073, where there’s just been a terrible accident above Io. People are screaming and things are exploding. Read it, enjoy it. Flame me for the song and dance number with buxom space bimbos, love me for the gratuitous (yet strangely touching) Martian lesbian sex scene.
Watch! Full-on antenna on antenna alien love.
…wait, that’s the sequel. Christ, just read it. I’m releasing this under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license. This is to say you are free to alter and redistribute this work, so long as you do not charge for access or remove the original attribution to me as the author. As such I’ve also uploaded the source TEX file for easy alteration.
You can grab the TEX file here.
Feedback is absolutely welcome, either on this thread or by email to me. Work is still ongoing, I’m constantly fixing typos, rewriting sections, fixing grammar and the like.
Additional credit goes to Mariah for nit-picking my grammar, Jen for nit-picking my spelling, Tef for advice on grammar and Mofidul asking for more space battles.
