Yzabel / June 13, 2012

Toying with themes

Because I was so fed up with revising all day long…

… I spent a couple of hours tonight toying with themes, to try and find something new for this blog. After all, the former theme dated back to 2005 or so; it was high time for a change, wasn’t it?

I still don’t know if I’ll go with the present one in the end, or if I’ll work on something else. I’m definitely going to add a few more things to the banner. But this will happen later. I still have much work to do in terms of school work tomorrow.

Yzabel / December 1, 2005

Websites and Flash

As I was working on a redesign for Paradygma—among other things, I want to make it more of a portfolio, not a showcase for every tiny bit of an illustration I’ve done—I realized that I’m really not fond of Flash. Not fond at all.

Every graphic-designer, illustrator and their dog seems to have this liking to creating their webpages in Flash. Alright, it’s pretty. The first thirty seconds. After this, I grow tired of not being able to open links into a new tab/window, of having to cope with intros and images displaying square by square or line by line only, in other words: all the bling-bling. I’m not really for the tacky stuff, and my, some of these are tackier than the deco of all of our five local Chinese restaurants put together.Read More