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Im just a dude watching over my parents,
and trying to make cartoons and video games from home.
and trying to make cartoons and video games from home.
Remembering the 2014 Blog Design
Important!
Dear visitors,
This blog and the Tigarus.com network will be changing our website software in May (2024). There will be some down time and there will be a change to the webpage addresses.
We will also be removing the Anime blogs. The Rocksmith Songs website will be unavailable of a few weeks or months while I move the database to the new software.
At the moment we are running on Wordpress, the new software is an in-house project which is 57 times faster. It will also provide more freedom for development.
Thank you for understanding.
It was a mess.
When I started my blog in 2009, things was much different. I used a simple and clean WordPress theme I found on the Internet, but it wasn’t very personal. In 2014, I took the time to design my own theme. I didn’t know much about WordPress back then and thus I made a lot of mistakes, but I like to think it worked out in the end. I had a design no one else had with some cool features. Then mobile compliance hit the Internet like a ton of bricks, and very few people knew what to do about it. A new responsive design was needed to fit all display sizes, and so I say goodbye to the old theme.
In many ways the 2014 design was a mess. The front-page’s sliding showcase was a manually created XML file which made updating inconvenient. The layout had a fixed width design and was not very flexible. Styling was a bit unrefined and dirty. The comments section was very dirty as I didn’t know what to do with it. Latter on I updated the design to have a floating top navigation bar, a side sticky skyscraper advertisement, footer links, and tablet compatibility.
The best feature of the theme was the randomly displayed advertising placeholders. These placeholders were a fun and creative way to present advertisements by displaying a joke comic. There was no better way to show ads than to make fun of them. Other features included Old Browser detection, Print View, and Adblock detection.
The index below provides a collection of memorable items: layout snapshots, and collections. The Ad Presenters were the most enjoyable.
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