Gakuranman.com – illuminating Japan

It’s that time again. Yet another spasm of tinkering, tweaking, coding, designing and, of course, consuming copious amounts of sugary goods well into the early hours has resulted in Gakuranman.com version 7 and a logo. Here’s a history of the website’s design evolution!

Okay guys and gals. Version 5 of Gakuranman.com is now live! I would really appreciate your thoughts and feedback on the design and functionality. Let me know about bugs and suggested improvements ^^.

Hey all. Just to let you know that my website has moved to the domain: Gakuranman.com

Finally! After a week of tinkering and tweaking (and tweeting, for that matter), my website (formerly Knowing Nothing) is re-born! This is the third incarnation of the site, codenamed ‘Kurage’ (just because codenames sound cool!). The site has been completely overhauled structurally! Read on for explanation of everything (including a secret feature!) and how I [...]

You may have noticed in the past few weeks some small changes on the website. The main update was in giving my header links rollover images, but this was not quite as simple as in the old days of HTML and Javascript. Now there are all sorts of usability issues and web standards to conform [...]

I don’t quite know what hit me, but I was suddenly overwhlemed with the urge to re-design my website a couple of days ago. I’ve been busy with Photoshop and enduring headaches over niggling coding issues, but finally it’s done. It’s just as well too, as I haven’t the time to be making websites, what [...]

Protecting images (or at least attempting to). That’s been my most recent mission in dabblings with digital media. I umm-ed and ahh-ed about doing it for a while, but decided to go ahead with it as I seem to be using more and more of my own photography and images lately. Hopefully I’ve done it [...]

Things have been pretty busy on Knowing Nothing recently. Finally, after many trials and tribulations, I succeeded in adding a sidebar widget which allows you to display quotes. It’s the ‘Quotes Collection’ plugin from Srini’s WordPress Laboratory. You can see it in action, modified slightly by me, displaying a random word from a rather swollen [...]

I’ve decided to purchase a new domain and move Knowing Nothing here. The .co.uk site will remain up as long as I have hosting left on the domain, but no new entries will be posted there. So please update your bookmarks, this is the new site! http://gakuranman.com I’m also currently going through old posts to [...]

To celebrate Christmas I’ve decided to give Knowing Nothing a festive theme! I had a lot of fun experimenting in Photoshop with wreaths and creating snow effects. For anyone who is interested, I used the tutorial from DavroDigital to create the snowing effect at the top and basically played around with various images to create [...]

I finally got around to creating a special page where I give credit for all the images and inspiration I have used when creating the banner images you see in the header at the top of this site. Also, for those of you who haven’t spent time refreshing the main page to see all 4 [...]

Just a brief update about the site. I finally added content to the ‘About‘ page (should I have any readers who don’t actually know me – if so, post a comment and say hello!) and also added a Contact form if anyone wants to get in touch. I’m pretty busy with Philosophy essays and work [...]