Fink About It

… I am back from the dead. I was thinking hard about a make-over for this blog and this is what I came up with. So let me tell you what I’ve done so far.

Header

A lot of people I spoke to about the design, claimed that its dark header wouldn’t fit the rest of the page. Instead it would make the blog appear very technical. As you can see I changed that to a warm colored wallpaper.

Index

I’d never wanted to simply display the category, but also wanted to show a small illustrating picture next to the category title. As you can see I’ve finally managed to do so.

But wait, there’s more!

A little gamer and a little geeky, that is how Jannica describes herself. But she is even more than that – she’s an artist, she’s a model and she’s interesting. Yes, she’s afraid of mice, but apart from that she’s a very brave person, showing off her latest art, latest thoughts and broadcasting live every Wednesday at 7:30pm (pst). Read on

Danny Choo has what I would like to call “the eye”. He has the eye for taking beautiful photos. At least that’s what I realized in a second when reading one of his articles. His photos of the japanese figurines he owns are very inspirational, and very professional. And they are over his bureau, too.

His lifestream, and by that I mean his real-life and not the almost infinite social webservices he participates in, is also very impressive. Read on

Ever tried that great fancyzoom thing? It gives clickalicious results like this:

Here is how you can set it up for your WordPress site:

Read on

Nuns don’t have sex, right? But they do in fact have blogs! A nuns life.org is a blog by Julie Vieira that caught my attention in the way that it presents itself quite subtle with a unique content that is not too out of this world. Quite contrary! Her stories are manifested in the real world with real people. Julie is a real modern nun: When she blogs, she refers to the real world  and also to the digital world. In one of her latest articles 7 Ideas for Giving Gifts to Nuns she provides the idea to give a nun the gift of an Amazon.com Gift card:

it is a great gift because Sister can choose what she needs. Maybe it’s the newest hip-hop CD or a specific book that will help her with her ministry.

For her awesome blog I want to give her the FAIT award. Congratulations, Julie! Keep up the good work.

Go read A nuns life.org