First version of
Little Dessert

Design and coding of design to Jennifer Lindberg’s blog about pastries. Adaption for Blogg.se’s templating system.

Jennifer Lindberg is a close friend of mine who has a big interest in creating not only very tasty, but also beautiful, pastries. She started this blog to inspire other people to do amazing pastries.

The design was created with a homemade feeling, by using a lined paper as the content background and small pieces of torn paper for details such as the info note in the sidebar. I used handwritten fonts to enhance this handmade feeling. To also make it a bit luxury I made the header red with silver/pink glitter.

She started the blog on a blog network, blogg.se, which has a specific templating system. You have access to the CSS code and the HTML for the different sub pages. The HTML contains placeholders for things like post dates and such. For simple designs this is easy to modify. Though more demanding designs such as this requires a bit more. The date wasn’t possible to format in the way I liked it, so that required a piece of JavaScript. Also my specific font choice wasn’t possible without JavaScript (@font-face hadn’t become popular then), which made me go for Cufón to replace the text with images made with that font. Another problem then arose; you weren’t allowed to upload any code files to the system, so I had to host the JS files on another server.