{"id":36307,"date":"2014-06-10T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/?p=36307"},"modified":"2014-06-10T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:52:14","slug":"a-quick-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/06\/10\/a-quick-change\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve noticed that something has changed here, well by golly you&#8217;re right. I&#8217;ve given the website a bit of a facelift (some of you have noticed that the site has been down for 24 hours a couple of days ago too!)<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;m still making small tweaks here and there on the fly, so don&#8217;t be alarmed if you see something weird going on about these parts. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be done in the next few days!<\/p>\n<p>Making any sort of change to my website has always been a daunting task in my mind. There&#8217;s so many things that could go wrong, and yet there are many things that could go right too, especially once a change has been made.<\/p>\n<p>It took me some time to re-grasp and refresh my CSS vocabulary in making changes to the website. A few years back I could change up codes without even bothering to make a mock-up beforehand! I did try going his route for a couple of hours before I stopped myself &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t going anywhere, and the design I had in mind wasn&#8217;t unfolding as I had expected it to. You know, by sheer magic.<\/p>\n<p>So I fired up good old Photoshop and put my thoughts onto a tangible form, instead of winging it like I did before. And I got lucky because I got it all out on the screen in the matter of minutes. Tweaking the codes \u00a0was so much easier once I had a visual reference to follow &#8211; I did myself a favor by extracting what I had in mind and to throw it out there. In fact it should have been the first thing that I did. Though I did sketch out some layout preferences, nothing beats a straight up mock up. Or the actual sitting-down-to-get-the-hard-part-over-it phase, instead of hemming and hawing around with nothing to show for it.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my thought for the week: put that hand on your canvas. Or click that button already. If you&#8217;ve been putting off making a change, no matter how small, think of this as a friendly reminder that it&#8217;s never to late to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Go \u00a0on, it&#8217;s your move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"A quick change\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2014\/06\/10\/a-quick-change\/\" aria-label=\"More on A quick change\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36311,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36307\/revisions\/36311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}