January 17, 2008
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Themes Thursday
Ever wondered who the designers behind your favorite themes are? Each week, we’ll be interviewing Xangans like you who create popular themes; for our first installment, we held a Q&A session over email with rayray714a, whose themes are some of the most frequently saved designs this month!
X: How long have you been a Xangan?
RR: Since May of 2005.
X: Do you have a design background or any previous experience in making layouts?
RR: No formal training at all. When I joined Xanga I saw cute
layouts on other sites and decided I wanted to learn how to do that….I got
Paint Shop Pro, Frontpage, and learned basic HTML. All of this was
completely foreign to me so I dove in and didn’t come up for air for about 6
months. When themes started, I decided to figure out those and now I love it because
there is no more coding! yay!X: What do you like most about themes?
RR: No need for HTML codes! Also, I think it’s fun how users can
just “try them on” so easily and save it to their site.X: How do you come up with your themes? What’s your inspiration?
RR: Usually one graphic will strike my interest. Then I’ll open
a blank canvas in my Paint Shop Pro and just see what happens.X: Do you have any upcoming ideas in mind for theme designs?
RR: I plan on converting all my existing layouts into themes. Also I love working with flowers, foliage, jewelry,
and gems. So we’ll see how God inspires me for what will be coming up next.Check back next week for our next Q&A!
Comments (23)
What a cool idea.
That was such a great idea and she makes wonderful themes.
A brilliant idea
she is such a sweet person also!
Xanga you really do know how to push the boat out
To keep Xanga fresh and somehow different from all the other social sites/networks in the world
Schweet!!!
How interesting..I just saw some of them and they are fantastic..* great job..* I wish you could click on them and ‘see’ them up close before you have to use them…I haven’t tried them because I have not idea if my old one can come back if I change my mind or something…not sure how it works…but great work rayray** take care all..Lee
Yeah! RayRay! You made the first theme I ever had on Xanga and my friend said she really liked it!
Awesome idea to feature RayRay and let everyone get to know her more. She’s such a sweetheart and has quite gift for designing!
This makes Xanga different from many other blogs and social networking sites.
It’s been a while since I made a theme. *makes more themes*
So glad you began this feature. RayRay is a great first choice. Her layouts are always beautiful.
man, you guys are really gettin’ down with the xanga community, aren’t ya?
much great thanks to the xanga team! since the new subs page, i have become even more addicted to xanga than ever. it shows me everything all at once, and therefore, i don’t miss anything. i’m commenting all dang day on blogs, pulses, videos, photos! email! everything! it’s AWESOME!
the theme of rayray714a is nice,
how wonderful is it?=]
I always use a theme by Rayray- they are usually the prettiest on xanga. Snaps to her!
Looking forward to reading the next one
Have you guys ever thought of having a feature that helped individuals with deterioting eye sight? I was thinking if on the public feed section the reader could have a tab that would allow the Blog to be increased in font size-a sort of magnifying glass function.
thanks
FG
I am RayRay’s fan of her themes, especially her designs dedicated to Someone above.
I can sense that she’s such a great person. When I search for new themes, it’s her theme designs that I look for first. There are others that are good also, but RayRay’s design ideas are very unique in my eyes. I’m so glad that we have this Themes option, because I was running out of ideas, aside from they are time consuming to do them on my own.
Congrats RayRay for being recognized– you deserve it!!
Love, love, love rayray!!!!!!
Thanks for spotlighting here!
@Aubrey - yah I agree, it’s tough to make themes on your own. Thank goodness for the Themes directory!
Is there any way that a user that doesn’t want themes (i just opened a sub-blog and i’m frustrated that i can’t get it the way I want) to be able to go back to the “look and feel” pick-and-choose option for their site and make the changes public? my main blog still works on look and feel but the other one only keeps the changes there private.
thx