New beginnings
Welcome everyone!
New website, new section. A blog. All around me I hear that personal blogs are quickly becoming a thing of the past so naturally I have to try this, now that it’s too late.
What will the blog be about? I don’t know exactly yet. Mostly about art, photography, behind the scenes, Lego, or just random Foolish thoughts. If you have anything you’d like to know about, just let me know.
So…
Once every one or two years I change the site around a little, just to keep it interesting. The last change I wasn’t too happy with to be honest, it was much too dark and the homepage was a little too gloomy. The problem was I tweaked the base-theme too much. In fact I tweaked it so much that it turned out to be impossible to just update the theme without breaking the site. It was even difficult to change the littlest thing… and so the look of Foolish Lego became a thorn in my eye.
This time around I tried to do thing differently, I stayed within the theme and I developed the site offline with the help off a program called: “MAMP”. That worked like a charm! After working on it for a few weeks (every day a little), it’s ready to be uploaded.
I’m only worried about a few things:
– What will you guys think about the changes (not so much a worry, just wondering)?
– Will my database update all the links correctly?- How will the site behave on mobile devices (especially the frontpage-header)?
– How much problems will there be the first few weeks.
If you find any problems, or if you have any suggestions to improve the site, let me know. It should be much easier to change the site without doing a mayor overhaul this time around!
Let me know, what you like and, sometimes even more important, dislike.
Cheers,
Dwaas
OTHER POSTS THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU;
Opening the secret door!
February 2, 2019
Rejected Lego photos – part 1
September 24, 2018
Tutorial on making it rain in a Lego photo
August 23, 2020
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First impressions at this new look, and I have to say that overall it’s an upgrade over the previous version. (I’m using a PC, no mobile device)
First, I love the new home page. Full screen pics home page is awesome. The Foolish Lego logo could better fit somewhere else IMO but this upgrade is so far the best of the new website. Dark grey also looks better than deep black as background.
Hard part of the stuff you want to show in our website is, IMHO, the space you want to give to both the comic and the pics. I mean, I found your site thanks to the comic, but a lot of followers knew about your 365 project way before you started the comic. I kinda have the feeling that you try to find the balance between this.
That leads to a question I never asked you… What work are you the most proud of? The comic, the 365 project I or the 365 project II? (And yeah… you have to pick one!)
Aaaargh, this is the third time I’m typing this reply…. I have to find out what is going on with the comments 🙁
Thank you! That is actually a very hard question to answer, so I’m going to use a blog-post to write about it and in the end…. try to pick one. I had a blog before (in Dutch) and was always struggling to think of topics to write about, so I’m not going to pass up on this one!
Looks like posting need a little fixing. Comments are displayed but after “manual” refreshment of the page. (I’m posting via a PC)
Hmmm, FL actually just lost my reply to you 🙁
I don’t really know what is up with this though. I haven’t changed anything concerning the comments. I’m using a plugin for this, so it is out of my control. But I will have to see what exactly is going on here.
I think that the blog could be used for posting images of the comic’s set and/or your own creations.
You are absolutely right. I will post comic sets once in a while.
I actually don’t have many (read: any) MOCS besides these sets. I just can’t find the time to build them.