{"id":1299,"date":"2011-05-23T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:36:55","slug":"simplifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/simplifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-12.23.10-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1300\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-05-23 at 12.23.10 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-12.23.10-PM-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-12.23.10-PM-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-12.23.10-PM.png 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Those of you who have your own website know the pains of coming up with a design that you are happy with. \u00a0After you coming up with that design you immediately want to change it. \u00a0I just wanted to simplify things and not worry about it. \u00a0This latest version is more of a change in philosophy. \u00a0The reason I say that is the design will change more frequently but the new philosophy I have is keep is simple and play around with the technology that&#8217;s already out there.<\/p>\n<p>This latest version of my site is an inspiration from <a title=\"css Zen Garden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csszengarden.com\/\">css Zen Garden<\/a> and <a title=\"About.me\" href=\"http:\/\/about.me\">About.me<\/a>. \u00a0If you look at the source code, the HTML is very simple but the design is all CSS driven. \u00a0The layout is a total rip off of the about.me layouts and idea. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t have an About.me account, you should totally get one. \u00a0It&#8217;s a very simple idea but great idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\">Check out my website<\/a> and tell me what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have your own website know the pains of coming up with a design that you are happy with. \u00a0After you coming up with that design you immediately want to change it. \u00a0I just wanted to simplify things and not worry about it. \u00a0This latest version is more of a change in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}