A new layout! :D

The layout is a bit screwy on IE6 and below though since somehow IE is stretching the top gradient, but nothing too bad, until I find out how to fix that, screw you IE users! The geeky details are at the bottom of the post, but before that, here’s a pic of the fairy girl at the bottom of this page.

And this is an iPod commerciallookingish version, sans wings, (In reality I dislike all iPods except the iPod Touch, oh God I really want a Touch)

Anyway I hope you guys like the new layout, do leave comments if any (:

And now for the geekery

This entire layout is made of alpha transparent png-24 files, well the image parts anyway. If you don’t know what that is, go google it.
Anyway, alpha transparency is a huge bitch when it comes to designing, not because its hard to do or anything, but because there is no support for it in IE6 and below, and the only way to make it work was by hacking your design code so to speak. While that’s simple enough with a normal site, Wordpress presents another bitch because of how Wordpress accesses templates and all the php and crap. It’s possible to hack, but can be a bit of a pain and a headache to do.

This baby solves the hacking part for you. It’s a simple plugin, you only need to activate it, and then it’ll fix all the alpha transparency issues for IE6 and below, so far it’s working quite well, havent found any issues.

Will be redesigning and reviving my free Glass templates sometime this month hopefully, so watch out :)

48:29

48:29 is another random so-so piece, but heh. It’s named 48:29 because the text found on the piece is from the Quran Surah 48 Verse 29.

At first I used the verse because of the reference to the seed, but as I read it, I see the irony of how in our zeal we defile the word of God through our actions and prejudices.

Oh and no offence to my non-muslim friends about the unbeliever parts.

Box of Buncho 48 Colour Non-toxic Oil Pastels = RM 11.70
5 pieces of A4 sized mounting board = RM3
Having fun drawing with oil pastels on mounting board and feeling like a small child = Priceless

SYOK SIAL LUKIS GUNA OIL PASTEL

Love Out of Chaos

This is one of the things I did with the pastels, the other one is top secret hohoho.

It’s a shitty piece I guess, but hey, for a guy who can’t draw properly using traditional mediums, this is pretty decent aint it?

While working on some other stuff I suddenly remembered some comics I did with my friend Daryl (later we wrote 1 with help of our friend Jia Loon), when I was in Form 5.

The comic as I originally thought of it was going to be about Malaysian High School kids, but somehow we ended up doing Japanese High School kids (not that I’m complaining, it was still good lol). The way we thought of it, the comic would be some sort of visual playback of the past with future representations of myself (Deleted) and Daryl (Claude) commenting on the events of the comics in the comic itself sometimes.

The comic was drawn by Daryl, because he can really draw and I did most of the story writing and I also digitalized the line work and did the colouring.

I think we took the comic to a more serious level then we were prepared, we were both busy, and I as lord slacker would slack on doing the comics for a while. We only managed to do 6 comics, it was a fun run albeit very very short lol.

Anyway just thought I’d share with you guys :) (click on the preview image to see the whole comic)

An old piece to entertain you guys while I work on my current project lol. Made this for a pet sister’s birthday last year

Made in : Macromedia Flash 8