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"My name is Amol, and this is my blog. I intend to be a dev one day, so all my struggles and all my works [if I do them] will be here. I'm a computer science student, and I hope to be attending UC Davis by Fall 08."

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"My immediate goal would be to learn XML and make my own Trillian skin. From scratch [EGAD!]. I'm just about done with a basic understanding of HTML, and after some brushing up, I plan to move on Javascript and then XML. Seems like a 5 year-plan, doesn't it?"

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Trillian Skin - Planning [ver.1]

Stamped: 6/17/2007 11:31:00 am

Still pursuing the prospect of creating my own Trillian skin. Haven't made much progress on the coding side of the project - after all, all I've managed is some really basic HTML skill and just tested the JavaScript waters. Still a long way to go; it's going to be a while. I could very well rip Whistler, but I don't think that's something a good dev would do. Don't intend to be a pirate y'know :wink wink:

On the GUI side of affairs, I think I'll give it the ole Parchment Paper style. Maybe try to use a classic curly font like "Old English Text MT" or "Vivaldi" or "Edwardian Script ITC" or "French Script MS" [okay, okay, I pressed {windows/start key}+R and typed "winword" and went through ALL the fonts I have installed; but so what? It's besides teh point anyways!]. Now the question is - how are the edges going to look? I'm personally quite against the curls on the top and bottom; I'd rather have them burnt. I'll turn to Photoshop for that. What kind of symbols do I use for "minimize," "maximize," "close," and "hide"? I'll have to sleep on that one. And teh scroll bar? Hmm...

Now, that reminds me - I need tutorials and more. I think teh pattern that I found over at DA [in my hectic googling attempts] is going to help me. I haven't installed it yet, so I'll prolly include all that info in ver.2 of this report. I also found myself some other tutorials. Wonder how I can integrate all that and come up with something satisfactory. I also *may* need a substitute for "Send" - "onsenden" is the Old English counterpart, but that's a mouthful and doesn't flow right out of the tongue either. Not to mention the fact that it is without a drop of humor.


All in all, I think it's time to start concepting the GUI!

Oh hey, wait a minute! Here's a preview-that-looks-like-it's-done-in-5-minutes-but-took-me-50-minutes-
to-make-because-I-don't-know-Jack-about-photoshop-and-because-I -had-to-google-for-patterns-and-a-number-of-other-dumb-excuses. It's just the IM box, but hey, whatev~

P.S.: A friend o' mine sez it luks liek en RPG game window. (_ _)



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