ZicklePop Productions

This is the new design from me, Jake, called ‘Base’! In this entry I will go over how I came up with this.

Initial Process

I started by taking old designs and websites of mine and thought of how to merge them. After sketching out the plan I made a few alterations and set the design live. This design is CSS and HTML valid and made in PHP.

The Switch to Wordpress

I love Google and Blogger a lot, but it wasn’t getting the job done the way I wanted. The comments were done off-site and so was the posting and it just wasn’t very efficent. Wordpress is the most powerful free blogging software I’ve seen so I went to work on making a full theme for it out of the initial sketches.

HappyWeaselHour.com Says Bye!

My other site where I did a podcast and video-cast called Happy Weasel Hour is now intergrated into Jake Bilbrey.com and has a single RSS feed for doing so. This will be much easier to manage and a lot nicer in the long run. We have a built in audio-player for the podcasts so you don’t have to leave the browser for whitty banter! This all thanks to Podpress.

Transparent PNG Images

With Microsofts recent announcement that they are going to force Internet Explorer 7 on all users and seeing how Internet Explorer 6 was the only browser that did not support transparent PNG images, I did not lower the quality for it. It’s not a hate-Internet Explorer thing, I believe in being usable on all systems, but the only thing Internet Explorer 6 users will notice is there is a gray background.