Ahmed El Gabri Portfolio

After a huge work i`m proud to present my new design , it took me so long to to complete it and make it work!. Cause it`s my 1st time ever to use WordPress so it was a challenge.

It took me a while to understand how WordPress works and how does the template system works but i a managed to understand it to very well yet but sure better than before , Actually when i understand how it works it was overwhelming cause the probabilities are endless and the sky is the limit especially for PHP developers.

So getting back to the redesign process i mainly had 2 goals:

1. To make something that represent who i am & what i like i like blue it`s obvious and simple designs.
2. to have a blog and this has 2 sub-goals
   1. Improve my technical skills and to gain feedback.
   2. Improve my English cause since i finished school i didn`t talk or write in English regularly enough and i found myself heavily depending on Firefox to fix my spelling errors ,sad but true.
   3. Write and express myself with words cause i`m a shy person & can`t express with words well.

I chose to go crazy with HTML5 , CSS3 & @font-face (check the 404 page ) , yes yes i know both of them are not yet finished and the browser support etc.. . but since this is my playground i wanted to experiment , at first i was going to use Elliot Jay Stocks Starkers but then he made a post about Nathan Staines Starkers HTML5 so i downloaded and read the Codex and started designing.

The Blog was completely designed in the browser cause i didn`t know exactly what WordPress tags will give me or what can or can`t achieve with it so it was a trial and error part and actually i think it`s the best part of the site . at this point you must know that IE6 is not supported although it looks ok in it , only a glitch or two that need to be fixed & weird bug at the contact page – i don`t think it`s a Peek-a-boo bug – cause i tried nearly every solution on the web with no luck . anyway it degrades gracefully for other browsers .

at last i have to give credit to Jim Loy for letting me using one of his fonts.

so feel free to tell me what do you think about it , also any bug reports are welcome .

Update : i got many feedbacks regarding the blue color as a background and about typography problems so i decided to change the color scheme to a nicer and clearer one i hope this one is better.