Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Randallfriesen.com ver. 20,469,843. Otherwise known as The New Brown

So, I started to create a site for someone else, and I kind of started to like it myself...


Well, with inspirational kudos to the very pregnant Eka, the should be more famous Nazarin, and the now defunct Brooke-lyn, I started messing around with brown, normally a colour I would associate with poop. Well, poop and chocolate. How about let's just go with chocolate for now, shall we. And I was inspired.


So, given my fickle nature, I may stick with The New Brown, or I may move on to fuchsia, or paisley, or some other challenging colour.


But, I have introduced more content, some fun and some helpful. You may decide which is which.

24 comments:

  1. Wow!!!! Let me be the first to say... I LOVE IT!!



    Beautiful!

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  2. Oh, and thank you for leading me to the site of another pregnant person. Hooray!

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  3. Oh, and thank you for giving me the itch to redesign.

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  4. I said it earlier today, but I'll say it again: best randallfriesen.com design ever! Wonderful to look at; very pleasing to the eye.

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  5. I really like it and I can see ti changing colours with the seasons. Maybe that is just me...

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  6. It's cool, but the content is all squished in the middle and the sepia tones (try using that expression instead of poop - I mean brown) are rather too dark. It's kind of pretty, but I prefer simple vanilla to chocolate, nuts and fudge.



    Paisley? The only thing that should be paisley these days is either shirts or one of these.

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  7. Toni is right about it all being squished in the middle. Big brown side areas. So it is rather dark overall. But on the other hand chocolate is one of my favourite colours.



    Poop on the other hand has not become popular as a descriptive of colour - as in "I love that poop coloured dress you are wearing."

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  8. "squished in the middle"



    I'm not sure what that looks like. I do know that different monitors seem to handle the colour differently. Some I really don't like...



    Could you screen capture it and send the image to me? That would help me understand the squished idea.



    Thanks guys.

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  9. I like it. Rather soothing (but not sleep inducing. :) ). Maybe a little dark, but I like the overall design -- it's pretty clean and simple.

    Linda

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  10. It gives off that rugged dessert looking, Ralph Fiennes kind of maleness. I really like it! I am finding it somewhat difficult to read with the smaller font but I'd still rather have the Ralph Fiennes look.........;)

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  11. You know I love the browns, a quarter of my genes are even

    "Brown"! There could, of course, be more orange shades... brown being orange at heart!

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  12. The 'squishes in the middle' refers to the text in the centre being forced into a narrow strip by all the borders and peripheral stuff. That was viewing at 1024 X 768. It looks cool like I said, but the design takes away from the content.



    It's true, about your friends being those cruelest to you ;?)

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  13. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/AncientMariner/Randallfriesen.jpg

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  14. It looks like you're blogging from the ghetto. Take that however you want it.

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  15. Did you change anything - 1:48pm? On the office monitor it looks very different from what I saw on my laptop this morning.

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  16. Hmm, 2:41pm changed nothing, yet.



    Good different, or bad different?



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  17. I like the ABC's feature.



    The jury's still out on the colour scheme. I like sepia, but I may need to start taking prozac if I check in here too often. ;)



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  18. I actually see on my laptop a very differenyt picture than what I see on the desktop. On the laptop I have the Prince Albert Skyscraper in the back - behind everything. And that I like. I didn't see that this morning. This morning I just saw chocolate. Maybe that was the state of my eyes?



    On the desk top, I only see a very narrow brown border - not enough to identify the picture, although I know it is there now.

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  19. nice.......now about MY new look......

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  20. Robyn,



    how do you feel about brown....





    Thanks for being my friends, and telling me like it is. You don't always get that in life.



    I may mess around with font size, for some of you bi and tri people out there.



    But you know me. Wait a week and something stranger will arrive.



    :)

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  21. Bi and Tri people?



    I take it we're not talking preference and orientation here?



    Focals?

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  22. Get lineless (lenses) -- then no one knows why you're moving your head up and down like an idiot. :) (trying to get them in focus). (but I really like them)



    And I still like the site this morning. And that's an awesome picture (Christopher Lake). It is gray and windy in Kansas, no snow.

    Linda

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  23. :)



    You got er Toni.



    And thanks Linda, that explains my growing concern over Lauralea's quirk of nodding yes to everything she reads!

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  24. Randall in the time I have been coming here and reading your blog, I think that this look to your blog is very well done. I think that with the all white background that you were stuck in a rut. I think with the brown background comes change and I firmly believer 2006 is going to be a great year for you Randall.

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