So the new look for the IliaDraznin.com is up. There were some teething pains (categories disappeared there for half a day or so), but it all seems to be working out now. Biggest addition, other than the new design, is the Syntax Highlighter script, to make all those code chunks look nice.
There are still a few features missing but I’ll be adding those in the upcoming weeks. Anyway, it’s back to our regular scheduled programming now.
Well, it’s been a while since my last post but I’m back and I’ll make sure to start posting more often.
Right now I’m finalizing an all new (and original) design for the blog; it’s gonna be minimalistic and dark. In the meantime I’m also redoing categories, cleaning up the tags and modifying small things here and there, as part of the preparations for the new design.
So this has been a pretty busy week. Of course the biggest news is me launching this site… <crickets>… or maybe not. I guess it all depends on your perspective. As for the other interesting stuff — Google is sending out 100,000 beta invites to Google Wave in September; HTC Hero has been reviewed by everyone except me; Steam is having a sale on King’s Quest and Space Quests collections, and you know I got it as soon as I saw it; and finally a small Firefox add-on that is going to change my life (not really, but it’s an attention grabber, ain’t it). Keep Reading
As my inaugural post I decided that I’m not going to blab about myself, that’s what the “About Me” blurb in the footer is about. Instead I’m going to talk a bit about my favorite discovery of the past few months — GOG.com.
GOG.com
GOG.com (Good Old Games) is a site dedicated to the great PC games of yore. It’s a community site for people who remember the days when an entire game could be fitted on a single 5.25″ disk, and who still love to play the classics once in a while. They (gog.com) also sell many of these classics for download. Their catalog is always growing and much like Steam they always have one sale or another going on, which is frankly putting a load on my credit card so I’m always torn between loving them and hating them. One other thing worth mentioning about GOG.com is that all the games they sell are made compatible with modern Windows OS — XP, Vista, 7, so there’s no need to worry about installing DOSBox or other such software. So far from my experience they all work fine.
And as a web designer I also appreciate their site design — it’s very well done, light, slick and fast, if a bit too gray for my taste.
Anyway, if you miss such classics as Fallout, Earth 2150 or Under A Killing Moon (any Tex Murphy fans in the house?) you should checkout GOG.com.
P.S. And no I’m not affiliated with gog.com, just a big fan, that’s all.
I come from a programming background (Pascal and Assembler anyone?) and I started making websites because HTML seemed trivial by comparison - instant reward for very little effort. I soon however discovered that there's much more depth to it, and that I had a passion for designing beautiful sites and slick interfaces. 16 years later I still use Notepad(++) and Photoshop as my main tools of the trade, yet the web is unrecognizable - I love it!