Brandon Wang

My friend watched Wall-E a month ago and told me there were two things wrong. One, he said, was that if the Axiom (the ship) generated its own gravity field, then there wouldn’t be the whole sliding-down-the-side doom part of the movie.

Second, he told me, was the typing bot. If it was really so high-tech, then it would automatically register commands instead fo typing them out on a keyboard.

And I told him, it’s just a movie.

Achieving Good Design

I might not be the world’s most smartest person when it comes to design, but I do pride myself in knowing a bit. Enough to design a few websites and not have it look like the average MySpace profile. No offense, MySpace people. Honestly.

But the truth here is that you can find a lot of bad design everywhere. For this reason it’s really easy to pick out the people who didn’t put a lot of time in their site, or either just don’t know how to do it.

This is quite obvious when you visit a free website hoster like Geocities of Freewebs. They’re both great companies / services, honestly. I hosted one of my first websites with Freewebs, and I did Microsoft Frontpage experimentation with Geocities.

But sometimes, you need more than Frontpage.

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Lulu (selt-publishing book company) doesn’t offer a novel-sized hardcover book. And the only size they offer that’s even close they named it “Digest”. In my opinion, digest is a LOT smaller. Not novel sized. Honestly, people.

I’ve just updated the other pages of the portfolio to fit in with the design. There is virtually no design difference now between the portfolio and the blog. That’s the way I like design.

The New Design

Update: The site design just changed… again. Most of this stuff isn’t true anymore, but it’s still good design advice.

I’ve just upgraded the entire Brandon Wang site. It now has a much more fluid design, and it looks a lot neater.

In the designing of the front page, I used a lot of images. I really wanted the website to look exactly like it should look, so people without Myriad Pro would notice some differences if I just used text. I also considered using the Flash-text technique, but being a user of Flashblock myself, I realized that probably wouldn’t work out.

So the answer was to use images, and for everything on the front page, I used images. Everything, from the background to the links, was created using images.

The next step was to design the secondary pages. I decided I would kind of branch off of the front-page design. I quickly whipped up the background image I used for the main page, but without all that “Welcome to…” junk. I really liked that light effect, so I just used that. Continued »

A Clean Slate

This is a placeholder I have written to aid in designing the blog.

This is the blog of Brandon Wang. There’s nothing here (as of writing), but soon this will probably be filled with nonsense and ranting from me (the irony). I’m still working on the design for the website, as I was using this before as a CMS. Now, however, I wish to be focusing on writing.

If you want to read some writing other than this placeholder, you should probably visit my literature, technology, or Chinese blogs. They probably actually have something there.

In case you don’t know me, I am (at time of writing):

• …eleven years old.
• …a fast typer.
• …a decent coder.