F002K: Unleashed!

March 20, 2006 52 Comments Web Design
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okay, i've been teasing ya guys with this design for the last week or two, and i'm getting damned tired of switching over to it through the address bar everytime i hit my site... so here we go with something new, on the first day of spring which somehow seems rather fitting in it's own way.

F00:2K Design Highlights

some of you might remember the Outlook 2K design that i had up on gotfoo a couple years ago... well, this harkens back to that, which is a design i always liked and thought was pretty neat for a blog.... but this one's been completely redone and coded out, and is really more of an "ajax blog" than the one i remember seeing on digg awhile back (even though it was kewl).... here's a couple things of note off the top of my head:

  • 3-Pane UI: the UI code comes straight from jeremy, who's helped on alot of this stuff and major kudos goes out to him for all his help... thanks buddy! (you da man)
  • Ajax Blog: all blog entry requests are made with an ajax callback, which grabs the data from the database in XML format, and uses responseXML to specifically populate the appropriate div's.
  • Ajax FooBabes: using the same technique to include the FooBabes in an ajax framework, the XML file is called with an ajax call, and then parsed and displays the images back (with some added code).
  • FooComments: i toyed with the idea of including them into the design more, like i've been doing for awhile now... but it was getting pretty complicated with just the blog portion, so i opted to seperate that out for now and put it into a popup window -- which i havent done in awhile... still has the ajax callbacks, so it doesnt refresh on you... added some random backgrounds to spice it up a bit, as well as some fade in/out effects when toggle'n between the two states (courtesy of the moo.fx lib)
  • Comment Checker: this also got some sublte updates... fades in and out as it should've all along, and if you click on the link, it'll load the blog entry in the main reading-pane on the right.

seems like there's alot more i could go over, but those are the big ones off the top of my head... many hours tweaking and playing with stuff, and i'm not even sure peepz will see or appreciate it... but i know a few of ya will... along with those who dont like it, and if you're one of those.... well, dunno what to tell ya -- it's my personal site, dammit.

feedbacks always welcome... hope ya dig Wink