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And it has finally arrived
1272 days
As I said yesterday, Something big was prepared for this blog, and here it is, a new design.
This new design doesn’t only include a new layout, but also this brand new logo, a favicon and a real good looking design.
Why did I say something big ? Simply because I didn’t like previous one, in fact I realised that if I had to fall on a blog like the one I had before, i wasn’t sure I would have subscribed as it was nice to look at but hard to read.
My inspiration
First I would like to say that this new design is inspired from one of the most beautifull webdesign to me and also a great source for designers. To me this is a not a copy or a rip, it’s more something like a tribute to SmashingMagazine.
I was also inspired by the wordpress theme Coda, that uses a lot Mootools for effects, such as the one you can see on the right top sidebar.
And finally, I use Oxygen icons for most images you’ll find here. Simply because these are probably the most beautifull icons available for an Operating System environment.
The about section is inspired by what we can see on ProBlogger and introductory text was corrected by my lovely wife.
Final words
I just hope you will enjoy this design as much as I do, and do not hesitate to leave comments about what you think of my new design.
[Photo credits: Strawbleu]
Something big is coming…
1273 days
by Anthony
in Zen-Dreams
Ok, I’ve been away from the blog for quite a few days now, but that’s just because something big is going to happen on this blog 
Can’t tell more, but stay tuned and come back often to see it
Advertise on your blog with Performancing Ads
1290 days
by Anthony
in Zen-Dreams
If you a re a blog owner, you might want to place some ads and get some money out of it, Performancing which is a famous blog to enhance your blog’s success started a new Ads marketplace. If you have 125×125 ads zone on your blog, you might want to check out their system as it’s weekly revenue based and allow you to exchange banners if you want to.
I signed up to their service and the control panel is very efficient, ads are well chosen and you can filter ads you don’t want to display based on text filters.
Targeted Blog Advertising With PerformancingAds
Source : John Chow
Minor Design Update
1292 days
Image © John-Morgan
Today, after reading this interresting post at Smashing magazine (which by the way is a great source of inspiration to me), I decided to give my sidebar a little bit more space.
And this is not the only modification I made, I also removed the Per hour theme, because it didn’t look equally conceived. So for now, there will only be one state, white background.
ZdMultilang, video tutorial
1299 days
Here come a short video tutorial for a better understanding of ZdMultilang.
ZdMultilang presentation Video from Anthony PETITBOIS on Vimeo.
For your information, video capture zone won’t show you how the permalink is handled, so this is the way the plugin will manage urls to access the page in a specific language. For example, this blog uses fr and en which can give this : http://blog.zen-dreams.com/fr/zdstats or http://blog.zen-dreams.com/en/zdstats
New theme
1316 days
As I promised earlier, here is my brand new WordPress Theme. This one suits me better.
This theme is working perfectly on Firefox and quite well on Internet Explorer (except for PNG transparency)
One of the funny things with this theme is that it changes depending on the time of your visit (There are three states, night, day, and morning/evening)
The sidebar is now less cluttered than previous one and Tags will be available during searches and wrong pages.
Small theme update
1325 days
It’s been a few days since I noticed that the blog didn’t work properly under Internet Explorer. As it was not bugging me, I never took the time to update it, but this is now done.
Of course, the blog is not looking as good as on Firefox, but anyway, now anyone can read my blog.
I will probably change my theme soon, with something that look better, and more like me, once done, I’ll release the present theme as Creative Common for those who may want this one.
Third wordpress theme
1379 days
And here is my Third theme, this ons was made for me. Still based on Sandbox, i wanted this theme fresh and clean. At first I was creating a theme looking like a zen garden, but I thought it was not fitting the subject of my blog. So here it is, what do you think ?
Credits: Icons are taken from the Tango project, rss Icons comes from the Smashing magazine gift.
A few stats
1389 days
It’s been a few monthes since I reopened my blog and installed a statistics system I developped myself. I found it to be more efficient and realistic than others as I can update filters on search engines, spammers and bots on the fly.
You can see on every page / blog post stats on page views. This is due to an API I made for myself allowing to display that information. (more…)
Thème
1581 days
Que c’est compliqué de trouver un theme qui va bien avec le style d’un blog, alors je me contente de celui-ci, qui est simple et me permet de faire ce que j’ai envie visuellement, mais j’espere encore trouver un theme “idéal”, au pire je le ferais moi-même, mais c’est relativement chronophage… donc on verra bien 