I’m currently developing the second Xion skin I will release (codename ‘Blight’). And, as probably every other artist on this planet, I want this piece to be the best I can. Aside from visual beauty, I ofcourse also want it to be functional. That’s the whole point of media player skins, isn’t it? People have to actually use them. Therefore, I was wondering what you, the user, look for in a media player skin. Whether it be for Xion, Winamp, Windows Media Player or any other player out there. Are [...]
Some of you might have noticed that JellePingen.com was down the day before yesterday. There was a little message instead: “Scheduled maintenace, check back later”. However, the maintenance wasn’t scheduled. And I didn’t put up that message either. Here is what happened: I got home late that night, and I saw that an update was available for the Contact Form plugin I’m using. So I hit the ‘update’ button, and wait ’till it’s done. It never finished loading. WordPress automatically displayed the maintenance message, and I couldn’t even acces the [...]
Finally. After months of sketching, designing, coding, bug testing and fixing things up for IE, I can happily say JellePingen.com is ready for launch. It all started in February 2010, when I got tired of the name of my previous portfolio. I decided to go for something a bit more personal, so I registered JellePingen.com. It took another month or two before I got a design I was satisfied with. Designing for yourself is still one of the most difficult things to do in my opinion, I am my hardest [...]
July 25, 2010
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