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Sep 25 2007

manrymission.com Redesign

Posted by Dale @ 8:02 pm in Blog Design Print This Post Print This Post

Over the past week or so, I’ve spent my free time working on a redesign of the blog. Free time for me is basically from 2000 to 2200 each night. The time I spend working on manrymission.com is a means of relaxation. My other outlet is running. I usually go for a run at about 1900, take a shower afterwards, and then watch some TV, read a book, or work on the blog. All of this week has been devoted to the blog redesign.

One of my favorite parts of this design is the cubic globe in the header. To create this, I downloaded some satellite imagery from NASA’s Visible Earth project. I then used GIMP to tile the imagery into 6 tiles. Finally, I used GIMP to create a cube and paste the appropriate image tiles onto the cube faces.

8 Responses to “manrymission.com Redesign”

  1. On 26 Sep 07 at 3:22 am,
    Michael Meloch said:

    Dale,

    It looks great! How much do you charge to be the Blog Designer for the Meloch’s? :wink:

  2. On 26 Sep 07 at 12:03 pm,
    Alison Rose said:

    Am I correct in assuming that you carefully positioned the corners of the cube to center on the geo coords of Mosul? :cool: very cool !!
    BTW, I like the choice of the NASA image – one of my personal fav’s.

  3. On 26 Sep 07 at 3:18 pm,
    jewels said:

    :cool: You put canberra time on , that’s so sweet.
    Now you lot, no getting jealous

  4. On 26 Sep 07 at 5:36 pm,
    Kathy said:

    :smile: Jewels, He did that for me. Now I’ll know just when to pray.

  5. On 27 Sep 07 at 4:22 am,
    Mugs said:

    You must have changed the font size for my parents. I can’t believe you are condoning such a large font.

  6. On 27 Sep 07 at 4:34 pm,
    Dale said:

    I have special design rates for family!

    I agree with Ali, the NASA image is one of my favorites. And yes, Mosul is centered where the cube faces come together.

    I kept thinking “I wonder what time it is in Canberra?”.

    I didn’t go all the way up to Giant Print yet, but it is much bigger! Next week, I’ll have a cool new font tool on the blog.

  7. On 28 Sep 07 at 7:43 pm,
    Sherri Easterday said:

    Is that why when I left a blog about the Bears the font was so big???
    I thought hit something to make it so big. Problem is it runs off the right and
    you can’t see what you’ve typed. So I kept hitting enter when I would get to the end

  8. On 29 Sep 07 at 11:45 am,
    Dale said:

    If you’re visiting a Bears blog, then you should expect your entire system to get corrupted!

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