{"id":78,"date":"2007-12-18T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T04:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/color-fader-updated-other-stuff\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:15:41","slug":"color-fader-updated-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/color-fader-updated-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Fader Updated + Other Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#8080c0\">C<\/font><font color=\"#8778b5\">o<\/font><font color=\"#8f71a9\">l<\/font><font color=\"#96699e\">o<\/font><font color=\"#9e6293\">r<\/font><font color=\"#a55a88\"> <\/font><font color=\"#ad537c\">F<\/font><font color=\"#b44b71\">a<\/font><font color=\"#bc4466\">d<\/font><font color=\"#c33c5a\">e<\/font><font color=\"#cb354f\">r<\/font><font color=\"#d22d44\"> <\/font><font color=\"#da2638\">U<\/font><font color=\"#e11e2d\">p<\/font><font color=\"#e91722\">d<\/font><font color=\"#f00f17\">a<\/font><font color=\"#f8080b\">t<\/font><font color=\"#ff0000\">e<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been annoyed at the job I did on my updated color fader since it was released. The interface was squished, awkward and clumsy, the color scheme was bland, and it over all just looked bad. I decided a few days ago to break from what I was doing and work on a re-design of it. I think I&#8217;ve come up with something that&#8217;s cleaner and easier to work with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/colorfader\/\">http:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/colorfader\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ASCII Art heading is kind of cheesy, but nothing else seemed to fit that heading area and it seemed to fit the ambiance so I left it in. Along with the new design, I added a few new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vertical text fading: Now you fade lines of text along with fading character by character.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-color image fade: I always felt it was a HUGE design flaw to have a separate 2-color area for image fading. I&#8217;m not sure what I was originally thinking, perhaps I was just lazy.<\/li>\n<li>Background color selection for text fades: You can now see what the faded text looks like on different colored backgrounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultra Edit<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking around for a good text editor that I can use for development purposes. At the moment, most of what I&#8217;m doing is Javascript and PHP. Recently I&#8217;ve come across Ultra Edit, which appears to be a pretty snazzy editor. It has syntax highlighting, grep-like searching abilities, a customizable tool bar, line number information, the ability to hide nested code, and lots of other nifty features. It&#8217;s only negative is that it&#8217;s not free. It&#8217;s $50 if I want to use it past the trial period. I&#8217;m actually thinking about shelling the doe though, since it would be a big step up from WordPad. Anyone know of any other good Windows text editors I should try before I purchase a license for this one?<\/p>\n<p>Garfield \/ Realfield<\/p>\n<p>Some clever folks on the internet have discovered that the Garfield cartoon strip is actually pretty funny if you remove all of Garfield&#8217;s thought bubbles. It actually works on a whole new level, it&#8217;s pretty cool:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.org.es\/realfield\/\">http:\/\/blog.org.es\/realfield\/<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Garfield replaced with a realistic cartoon cat and thought bubbles removed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthandbeautybombs.com\/bb\/viewtopic.php?t=4997\">http:\/\/www.truthandbeautybombs.com\/bb\/viewtopic.php?t=4997<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Just the thought bubbles were removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google Ads<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been mulling over the idea of possibly placing a few Google Ads on this website. Nothing crazy or annoying, but something that&#8217;d be reasonably discrete and only on a few choice pages. I was doing some calculating and with what I read I could probably make enough a month to cover hosting costs if I placed ads on the Color Fader and the VB Code Bank. I think that would be pretty cool &#8211; this site paying for itself.<\/p>\n<p>My fears in doing this though would be that I could scare away visitors or annoy those who regularly visit. Or I could turn off people who think I&#8217;m just trying to cash in. So I&#8217;d probably only do it in a few select areas, and not in areas that would cause clutter. I dunno, I&#8217;ll have to think about it some more, but I just thought I&#8217;d give everyone a head&#8217;s up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color Fader Update I&#8217;ve been annoyed at the job I did on my updated color fader since it was released. The interface was squished, awkward and clumsy, the color scheme was bland, and it over all just looked bad. I decided a few days ago to break from what I was doing and work on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/color-fader-updated-other-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Color Fader Updated + Other Stuff<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}