The time has finally come for a new start. My previous and old blog was on WooConcept. My portfolio has just been redesigned with a single-page layout so I decided to do something completely new and from scratch. I chose to have this blog hosted apart from WooConcept in order to be able to expose more personal opinions and to write about more general topics.
New name, new design, new content.
The name
I needed a new name for this website so I began to think about it. First, I was going to use a name with the word "pixel". But we hear that too often, plus I'm working on another project called Peaxl with two friends.
Basically, pixels are binary dots... so I got the first word. I wanted to put more sense in the name and very quickly came the second word : "thoughts". This is quite good for me because it has a relation with the thoughts I will share. Take these words together and you have a name with a funny pronunciation.
The design
I think (and hope) I will write a lot, long posts. The design had to be clean and classy, using a good contrast, big whitespaces and nice typos. For this purpose, I use two typefaces form TypeKit : the well known League Gothic and Superclarendon. For my print works I often use Jubilat, but it's not available on TypeKit. I finally found Superclarendon, which is very similar.
I'm a good guy so I worked on a 12-colums 960px grid. The code is made of HTML5 and extensively uses CSS3. You'll miss a lot of things if you try to visit this site with a (future) Web Standards non-compliant browser. To be clear : here and now, I don't care a lot about Internet Explorer. If you see some animations or sexy tricks, they rely on CSS3. I don't use JavaScript on D&T. Almost. Well yes, I use Mint for my stats reports and it needs JS. The Twitter widget also uses JS. Chances are I will embed some videos here and, until they provide HTML5 embedding, I have to use Flash and JS. But that's all. I tried to make this website completely JS and Flash free but I simply can't. I will try to publish video with HTML5 but it's still a pity because different browsers recognize different codec.
D&T is powered by WordPress and is ready for version 3.0, which is (supposed to be) coming this month.
The content
This is a blog. Not a magazine. Not a news portal. I will publish posts... when I want to. About anything. Most of time, it will be about design, typography, WordPress, photography, etc. but I think D&T is going to be my garbage for a lot of other ideas, thoughts and opinions. I'm going to write in French and in English. This second one is not my native language so don't hold it against me.
What else ?
Nothing. Feel free to comment on the upcoming posts. In case you want to reach me, do it on Twitter or via my business site WooConcept.
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