bits&pixels

Since I got so many email requests from people asking me how I created the effects on my header image and menu, I put together a little tutorial describing how I did it over at Swedish Fika. I hope you enjoy it and learn something from it!

PS. If you haven’t checked out or heard of PicLens I strongly advise you to. It’s the coolest Firefox plugin I’ve seen! Image browsing has never been more fun!

I welcome you all to the new version of my hideout on the web, formerly known as warnis.com. As old visitors will noticed, things have changed drastically here.

A fresh start

I’ve gone for a complete overhaul of the site. The name, branding and theme of the site are all brand new. The time felt right for a face lift, and in this case, a big one. I wanted a site that put more emphasis on me than my old one, while having a brand that wouldn’t be as closely connected to my name as the old name was.

Flexibility was another very important aspect to me when building this site. I wanted to create a solid foundation to be able to build further upon if I had the need to, which the old design didn’t quite give me. This led to me writing less and paying less attention to it, which I regret in hindsight.

The design

When creating the design I had two goals. To pay as much attention to detail as possible and to add minor functionality that improve the overall experience. It’s got lots of small javascript enhancements that aim to make the user experience as pleasant as possible.

The other goal was to not feel restricted by the limitations of browsers and CSS when creating it, which I really feel as I’ve accomplished (transparent columns in IE6, anyone?).

I’m very satisfied with the end result and I hope you all will like it as much as I do.

Old posts

I’ve exported the old posts from warnis.com that people seemed interested in reading (which pretty much means the posts that got search engine traffic). You can find them in the archives.

The future

I’m going to focus more on writing articles on web development and use it less as a blog (hence the name “Articles” instead of Journal or Blog). I’m going to publish thoughts, tips and reflections on web development, web design, user experience and programming. This means that I won’t publish anything new unless I have something of importance (to me, at least) to say.

You can expect some articles on creating this site in the coming days