So around the 7th I made “Trinest Lite”, well now a new theme has been made called “Trinest iLite”. I think its probably based around the inevitable that there would be a redesign, and approximently 12 days later, yes only twelve days later. A brand new design was made…yay I guess.
Luckily for you, I guess. You can be part of the journey, well not really- I just have a bunch of pictures which I have through the process, and like the post 12 days ago, this one pretty much shows wtf was going through my mind when I decided to redesign the site for the umteenth time. I’m sure the next design update in some stupid small amount of days will be just as pointless.
So like all ideas of late, it started off with a positioning idea, meaning nothing was behind the purpose of the idea besides “hey I wonder what the social media links on the left would look like, wow thats so ground breaking”, and it turns out it just might be.
So I designed up a concept with some blocks in paint, thinking “lol how awesome would that be”.
The second preview however was made yesterday, by that I mean on the 18th, it was just tooling around with what it was, I wanted to have the background something like whats in this artwork, but I then decided against it, well more to the fact I couldn’t figure out how the fuck to make it. And if I did figure out how to make it, it was then “how would that work on the site”.
It had the idea of where most of the things would be, also for the most part the resources used where not the final ones (even for this preview), I ended up polishing it up a bit more slightly before giving in for the night then having another crazy idea.
I decided to develop the site from scratch, because I had the awesome idea of having another single column design and something like that- you know something simple and blog like, also tiny, really really tiny, I was working in a plane about 500px, which in the end became what the content area was going to be. Also that is where the “sketched” box logo came from. Which all of the elements where there, just in a row not all nice and design like.
I then decided “hey what about that design you where working on the other day”, so I took a few elements from that idea and shoved them in, as you can see it looks like I kept going with the same design and slowly changed the elements, well thats possible, but no I was working with a new design which I had essencialy made all of the “right” part of the design, then I decided to include the “left” part from the preview design.
There wasn’t much enhansments done yet, and I hadn’t made the wordpress version.
I had now started to work with the design with all the fancy new elements, they where shoved in and I thought to myself “this isn’t half bad”. Though I decided it needed some tricks to be “one of my best works”, as I still say the best layout I made was a few years ago and was one of the first major designs I had made, if I could dig it up again I would, but I’m to lazy at this stage.
Anyway I included some code for making the font size bigger or smaller, as most people know, I like to keep the font size for some reason quite small on my designs, I also polished up the fonts. I do belive however I kept the original font in the “social” menu from the preview, because I think it looks alright, though the rest of the design went back to using Tahoma, which I havn’t used in awhile. (Previous few designs used Verdana).
I also added with the images an auto “restrict” to the size, meaning if it goes over 500px in the content area it will be restricted to those maximum restrictions, I also added a nice little border using pretty much the same technique to give it that extra something.
I then made the wordpress version, uploaded it, and then yeah- here we are. Also I cleaned up some pages once it worked, but other then that no new content.
I have noticed that when viewing the posts with the comments, the footer jumps to a random location, I’m thinking to fix it I would have to clear the footer from other DIV’s and then polish it up a bit to make sure everything stays intact, but yeah thats on my “one day pile”, as who knows, maybe there will be a new design by the time the issue is fixed.
Let’s write a 20 second wrap up of the latest happings, just because I’m to lazy to throw in some sexy banners and lamas.
DS-X2 was gifted with two pieces of content by me this week, both reviews as well.
Sim City Creator Wii was looked under the mircoscop by me, and while the review is a bit shoddy writing wise, over all it encompises what I feel about the game- I’m to lazy to spellcheck this article telling you about another article to prove my point- oh and you can read it here.
Another game was reviewed from the back log, and this time written much better then the Sim City review, my review on Lost Magic shows the world that Tack of Magic would fucking come “state-side”, because its one hell of a fucking game- its spritial prequel, Lost Magic was reviewed by me for DS-X2 and you can check it out here.
Okay maybe that took a bit longer then 20 seconds to write.
February 12, 2010
Articles - By Trent Petronaitis at 4:26 pm
We are coming up to the end of a generation, in the next few years we are going to start seeing new announcements of consoles and other hardware which either replaces the current offerings or removes itself and creates a 3rd pillar situation.
I’m going to post in this article a few pictures of some mock ups either developed by the community or “leeks”. I’m going to talk about what the design would offer at the end of the day, and what would be most likely the direction of Nintendo.
Nintendo is the only one which is having major rumors this year which relate to their hardware- major wise. Theres a few whispers from other people about what Microsoft or Sony would be doing, but Nintendo is the one to watch, expecially after the Nintendo DS and Wii, both unique and interesting revolutions.
Let’s get this out of the way first, if Nintendo is going to reveal a console it will be a evolution- and revolution additions to it would be minor. If its a handheld however, a revolution is more likely.
The Nintendo DS has already seen 5 different consoles under its branding. Not all of them can be revolutions, and with the XL just been an evolution of the slightly enhanced DSi, its about time Nintendo shows the world a new handheld.
Rumors are also stating the device could be a third pillar.
Nintendo handheld rumored to be leaked by the group SYNDiCATE
Above is a device which is rumored to be leaked by the group SYNDiCATE, called the Dawn, the device offers some unique prospective to the gaming industry. At the end of the day it could be a rumor, and fake, but I’m more going to talk about why something like this would be a more worthy choice for Nintendo then making a new Wii or DS, which even then is possible.
I’m not saying this particular device is real, fact it could be a load of hogwash, what I’m talking about here is the idea behind it, a Game Boy style third pillar.
For those who remember, the Nintendo DS was men’t to be a third pillar device. It wasn’t going to be in direct competition to the Game Boy, but did however feature a game boy port- which was removed from the “i” range.
Nintendo decided the Nintendo DS brand was doing better then the Game Boy brand and decided to ditch the Game Boy brand.
The Game Boy Micro was the last device from Nintendo which represents the Game Boy range, with rumors dating back to the birth of the virtual console on the Wii, we are yet to be graced with such a service for the DSi which would show the world the Game Boy games long missed.
Before the Nintendo DS, Nintendo was thinking about the next Game Boy- and quite seriously. It kept its traditional style for the most part, but rumors say it was more powerful then what the past consoles had been.
The device disappeared and the DS because of the Mirco’s failure moved on to becoming the top console. The only company to kill a Nintendo handheld- seemed to be Nintendo themselves.
If Nintendo is thinking of brining back the Game Boy line- then a third pillar device is one of the ways to do it.
Nintendo is most likely going to keep the device if it was a new Game Boy- games only, meaning it wont be like the Nintendo DS line with various multimedia features. It would also have much more simple games, reministant to the days of old, the games Nintendo had forgotten, button set would be similar to what the Game Boy has had in the past.
No carts, nothing- thats what this rumored deviced pictured above contains. I personally belive this would be the way to go, expecially if the GB line would be returning.
Nintendo catering only to the hardcore- per say, or the “retro geeks”, essencialy nothing bar downloadable services, GB Ware and GB VC, etc.
Most likely not there direction- it could just be a potato and a hat, or another DS or Wii or something stupid like a HD ad-on.
Though with Nintendo making events are events this year, its quite possible something big will happen- even if its not new hardware.
February 9, 2010
Articles - By Trent Petronaitis at 4:40 pm
Common sense dictates that the idea of an instant beginning is impossible, and is part of a loop of the inevitable end. As much as I close down my website and bring it back, that is the secret to the behind the scenes of the universe, a loop which breathes and lives and grows, in the sense what god would be.
Religion is a human creation in order to understand life and explain the factors of the unknown, it brings with it a set of rules of what they believe is how a human should act towards his fellow man. In the end it’s a code, and if the unknown was known, then the code wouldn’t exist.
So now we have set out that religion is rules, rules are religion sort of thing, personal adaptations of how someone sees the world.
Let’s go back the loop, a loop will always demonstrate that everywhere is anywhere and anytime is every time. Meaning everything which will ever happen is happening right now, which means that theoretically you would time travel, teleport or whatever other crazy dream you have.
Then again I’m probably just bored, making up shit and hungry.
Also going to mention something about the possibility of ghosts been just images of “a current life” meaning, a projection of what’s happing in the 18th century, but right now- err…yeah. Oh and a bunch of other shit.
