New Theme

Design guru Mark Forrester has helped me put together a new theme for the site, as opposed to the generic one I was using.

Please give feedback in the comments section – would love to hear your views, good and bad.

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26 Responses to “New Theme”
  1. Marketing Geek 18 December 2006 at 1:37 pm #

    Congrats! Looks awesome!
    I would suggest making your name clickable so that people who land on a particular article can get back to your main page easily.

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  2. Mark 18 December 2006 at 1:40 pm #

    Hey Dave, your to quick for us :)

    Working on that right this very moment!

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  3. Ian Delaney 18 December 2006 at 1:47 pm #

    Very nice indeed.

    Goes a bit weird at the bottom of the home page – article over-writing the other stuff – but I’m sure you’re working on that too!

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  4. Chris 18 December 2006 at 2:05 pm #

    Wow, nice work! Definite improvement on the template from before.

    As well as turning the name into a link, perhaps a ‘Home’ button wouldn’t hurt either? To some, clicking on the header to get back to the home page might not be intuitive.

    I also feel that the green box on the top right stands out a little too much – it’s not very important in the scheme of things, after you read it the first time. Maybe drop the contrast a bit by using a lighter green or something?

    Otherwise, I really like the colour scheme.

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  5. Mark 18 December 2006 at 2:09 pm #

    Thanks for the positive feedback Chris, some nice ideas.

    What you think Mike? Drop the contrast?

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  6. Mike 18 December 2006 at 2:13 pm #

    I reckon we drop the box altogether, dude. There’s an About Page, so we don’t need an about box.

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  7. Mark 18 December 2006 at 2:16 pm #

    RIP little box

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  8. Marc Forrest 18 December 2006 at 2:23 pm #

    Very very nice peeter !!!

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  9. Tertia 18 December 2006 at 3:21 pm #

    I like it, a lot. V funky. Least fave part is the size of the date button thingy. Too bold. Should either be smaller or less orange. I dont know. but its the first thing that catches my eye. too much. does that make sense?

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  10. Mark 18 December 2006 at 3:29 pm #

    Defintely a valid point Tertia.

    I know Mike likes the orange date box, but we could always play with it if he changes his mind :)

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  11. Mike 18 December 2006 at 3:33 pm #

    The date box stays – LOL

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  12. Gregor 18 December 2006 at 3:41 pm #

    Great revamp Mike! Me like alot!
    G

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  13. Paul 18 December 2006 at 4:11 pm #

    Ooh, very nice Mike and Mark! I love the new look!!!

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  14. Thomas Otter 18 December 2006 at 4:18 pm #

    looks great

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  15. Martin 18 December 2006 at 4:28 pm #

    Wicked.

    Love the colour.

    The only thing I would’ve done differently would’ve been to use .GIFs or PNGs for the three top-of-page buttons (instead of slightly-blurry JPGs). Then again, I’m a crisp-freak who’s obsessed with compression algorithms, and probably the only one who noticed!

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  16. Martin 18 December 2006 at 4:32 pm #

    Oops…

    OK, I was too quick on the draw. It looks like you saved the text as JPG as some stage (which caused the blurriness, and can be easily solved by re-rendering and saving the GIFs). That’s all, please shoot me for being such a pedant!

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  17. Mark 18 December 2006 at 4:36 pm #

    Haha. Thanks Martin. I will do that especially for you.

    Completely understand your point :)

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  18. Mike 18 December 2006 at 4:46 pm #

    Thanks Martin! I really appreciate the feedback guys.

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  19. Aiden 18 December 2006 at 4:51 pm #

    I like it Sid (how many of you know the origins of Mike’s nickname?).

    I’d like to see your sidebar a little more compact … in fact perhaps the whole typeface things as well. I find my eyes distracted by the spaces between (no DMB-pun intended)

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  20. Ben 18 December 2006 at 10:24 pm #

    Wow Martin, seems you have a real eye for talent.

    Looks great

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  21. rafiq 19 December 2006 at 5:48 pm #

    How about putting the trackback button back on your posts?

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  22. Aquila 19 December 2006 at 9:32 pm #

    damn awesome work there – well done ….so anyone interested in giving mine a makeover? haha

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  23. Aquila 19 December 2006 at 9:37 pm #

    oh yeah – forgot to mention the fatal error code at the bottom of the page

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  24. Doodee 4 February 2008 at 1:11 am #

    Thanks for sharing

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