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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Header thinkpiece

How is this for a header?





This is done "simply" by print-screening a text line of font .TMC-Ong Do in Open Office, pasting to paint and resizing. I'm not fond of big programs that you can't even touch.

Up until here, it was my own ideas. Then I googled around for a touch of perfection. bloggerstatusforrealbeta provided the ultimate answer.

Then I got bored of Ông Đồ font. I found some Vietnamese thư pháp fonts instead, which are similar but cooler. These forms have been simulated from the ancient art of writing by the joint effort of Vietnamese computer and calligraphy experts. In the end, I opted for HL Thuphap 1BK upgrade. The result is quite satisfactory, as you can see in my header.

This is definitely not the end...when I get my hands on the school's photoshop I will see about adding background images.

Squid Icon

I took this picture during my trip to Japan. This mystifying squid is a resident of the Osaka Maritime Museum. I immediately fell in love with him...among various other Japanese goodies.

So I went to FavIcon from Pics and got this:
Standard x32 by x32 image. It was initially converted to an *ico file, but it looks like blogger doesn't accept them. Unhappy, I changed the extension back to jpg. Let's see how it works. Here is the animated version:
It has the word "jublog" running across.

The next step is to insert this line between my <head> and </head> tags:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="put_the_image's_url_here"/>

which, by a personal stand of anti-corporatism, I automatically discard in favor of the Mozilla standard:

<link rel="icon" type="image/jpeg" href="put_the_image's_url_here"/>

The word is that this will only work with Mozilla Firefox because IE doesn't accept anything other than *ico files. Hmm....

*Si vous êtes francophones j'ai trouvé un site chez AFUL avec des bonnes explanations pour le faire vous-même à votre site. Ce n'est pas trop compliqué je crois.*

We'll see how it turns out.