Let’s see, what is there to say about the Fusion theme?

It would be nice to be able to change the black header color – as it is, I think it looks a bit severe. Maybe dour would be a good word to describe it.

I know I could use CSS – but I would have to pay for it – and who knows how long I will stick with the Fusion theme?

The black color of the header is not a simple overall black – the hexadecimal of which would be #000000 – it is a gradient that starts out at the bottom as nearly black and gets slightly lighter towards the top.

I ran the digital color meter (it comes bundled with a Mac) over the header area to see what the hexadecimal of the gradient is. It is #111111 shading into #222222 as you move up the header area.

So that is what I set using the gradient tool in Photoshop, and then I wrote the title text in TitilliumTitle20 at 72pt.

Titillium is a free font download from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino where they made the typeface as a project.

I like the upward tabs on this theme a lot. Not too big and not too small – just right – like Goldilocks.

I think the sidebar is too BIG – it’s a bit overpowering. I do like the little orange square though.

I like the space for the tagline.

However, the two measly words I have there at the moment [‘Mostly Photograpy’] look a bit lost though, so I will add a few more as soon as I have posted this.

That’s it except to mention that I made the header image as a png file.

Photoshop’s Save For Web And Devices function enables files to be saved as various file types – gif, Jpeg, png-8, and png-24.

Because the header image is text (as opposed to a photograph) I saved the file as a png-24 because it produces clean files of moderate size. For this kind of simple text (Light Reading) I find it produces a cleaner image than a Jpeg.

One More Thing
A small thing, but I am not super-keen on the very pale plum color of the little boxes around the tags at the bottom of the posts.

As I said, a small thing – but it’s not very attractive to my eye and how did the designer think that this color goes with the egg-yolk yellow of the little boxes in the sidebar? Oh well, it takes all sorts to make a world.

UPDATE: I switched to using the DePo Masthead Theme by Derek Powazek. Now I am back using Fusion. When you read this, I may be using something else – be warned 🙂

A place to feel at home…

There is something about Oslo. Something even I as a local, find difficult to pinpoint. And it is this something that makes me feel at home – even on days when I curse the blink-and-you'll-miss-it-summer and the cost of living. Maybe the only way I can convey the feeling is by telling you what happened a few weeks back. The day started by taking the tube down town. I then went on to hopping on to a corresponding bus in order to make it to my son' … Read More

via Photito's Blog

Great photos of the islands close-up and at sea-level.

Coron is one of the must-see places in my list of destinations within my home country, the Philippines. Together with Busuanga, Culion, and several islands, they form the Calamian group of islands in the northern tip of the Philippine province of Palawan. Though not as hyped as Bali or Boracay or Phuket or any beach destination in Southeast Asia, Palawan is a favorite among foreigners who come to this tropical country of 7,107 islands because of … Read More

via First-Time Travels

It took me a while to get my head around what was happening when, for example, I added Google adsense advertisements to my blog (not WordPress Dot Com blogs, of course).

I am used to the idea that the content of a website comes from the server where the website is hosted. And somehow I thought the Google ads went via the same server.

But eventually I got used to the idea that what is actually happening is that I place a piece of code on the site and the site pulls the content from the Google servers.

So my website (or anyone’s website) becomes a hub through which content is shown – and that content may come from my webhost’s servers, Google’s servers, and lots of other places – depending on what code I have put in my site.

Here is an embed for a Vimeo video that showcases what wonderful video can be shot on an iPhone.

Except this is a WordPress Dot Com blog, so the code for the iFrame that shows the video is changed by the behind-the-scenes WordPress program to a simple link. Not good.

You might like to click it though because the video is great and the music is catchy.

iPhone Film Festival – iPhone 4 Music Video from Moviphone Film Fest™ on Vimeo.

Wow, this is dangerous territory – where to start – where to end ? Better not go there.