Something new
for example a blog
I am blogging in german since 2004 on http://jeenaparadies.net/weblog/ about webdesign, programming, private stuff and so on. But I feel that it is time to start something new and in english because there are far more readers who understand english than german, and since I live in Sweden it will be more interesting for the people I know here to read in a language they understand.
I already started to blog in english on my old blog but I think mixing english and german in one blog is odd so I will not post anything in english there anymore, I will concentrate on things which concern only germans on the old blog and all the other stuff here.
I know the old design is much prettier then this and it is because it was my brother who did all the cool graphics stuff, and it is a pitty, but I am not a good graphic designer so you have to stand out with this design. But I'm shure you get used to it too.
This new site doesn't use Jlog anymore it uses a simple rails app like the one you can see on the Creating a weblog in 15 minutes with Rails 2 video. But I will use it to test cool new rails stuff because it is much easier to extend then Jlog was. At least if you already worked with rails for a while.
I will try cool new CSS3 and HTML5 stuff here too, perhaps some funny JavaScript and so on, we'll see.
For now it looks like the content will be rails and iPhone development because this is what I am working with on a day to day basis. Sometimes I work on small OS X programs like Twittia and I will blogg about politics, mostly european politics but who knows what the future brings.
And btw. you're welcome to correct my bad english because that's the only way I will learn to write correctly ;)
It was time to move on so I did with this new domain and blog in english.
Comments
Is this your blood? ;-)
Yes.
Ihhhh!!!!
It could have been blood from my eye, while looking at this design …
Where's the feed?
Don't you have a browser which shows an "Feed" icon in the address bar, Johannes?
As long as I've waited for CSS transitions and the possibilities they bring to loosen the strict alignment normal text on a website was bound to until now, and as smooth and refreshing it looks in Opera, Safari and Chrome - in Firefox (V 3.6.3, Win 7) it looks quite horrible: The text looks as if broken into small chunks, which are not at all aligned perfectly to some imaginary slightly angled baseline, but all seem to have their own baseline, somewhat misplaced to the previous and the following chunk. From an even slightly typophile perspective, it's an abomination ... Until the Mozilla guys get text rendering in combination with CSS transitions to look a lot smoother, I'd recommend to hide it from Gecko users at all.
Hi ChrisB, on my Firefox 3.6.3 on a Mac it looks exactly like in Webkit and Opera. Could you send me a screenshot with how it looks on Windows?
Like ChrisB, I see very jagged letters and a fluctuating baseline - but never mind: The feed's content is all that is important.
A back link's missing :)
Back link to what?
Back to main page (to /)
There is one at the bottom of each page when you click on "jeena.net"
Sorry, took me a while, but here's a screenshot: http://www.bilderload.com/archiv.html?bild=44115&bild_name=jeenaE0C36.png The top part is from Opera 10.53, the other to are from Firefox 3.6.3, both under Win 7. While Opera renders the text somewhat fatter, which gives it a quite Safari-like feeling in this matter (which I'm not a fan of), Firefox displays thinner text, probably just with less anti-aliasing, but with „hacked“ baselines. (Part 2 of the picture shows the rendering in Firefox as it is, Part 3 is the same with just some added lines to highlight the most annoying occurances.) I don't know, if this is a windows-only thing, I don't know if ClearType has anything to do with it - but I find it quite ugly.
Hm I see, but it is readable and I don't know any easy way to send different CSS to the Win-Firefox so I think I'll not remove it and just hope for a soon fix. It looks like that on OS X http://jeenaparadies.net/img/weblog/2010/jeena-net.png It uses the Gill Sans font.
Excellent Job! :)
I don't know, if this is a windows-only thing, I don't know if ClearType has anything to do with it - but I find it quite ugly.