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.

  • http://www.daveduarte.co,za Marketing Geek

    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.

  • Mark

    Hey Dave, your to quick for us :)

    Working on that right this very moment!

  • http://twopointouch.com Ian Delaney

    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!

  • http://chrisda.wson.co.za Chris

    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.

  • http://www.markforrester.co.za Mark

    Thanks for the positive feedback Chris, some nice ideas.

    What you think Mike? Drop the contrast?

  • http://www.mikestopforth.com Mike

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

  • Mark

    RIP little box

  • Marc Forrest

    Very very nice peeter !!!

  • http://www.tertia.org Tertia

    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?

  • http://www.markforrester.co.za Mark

    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 :)

  • http://www.mikestopforth.com Mike

    The date box stays – LOL

  • http://gregoogle.blogspot.com Gregor

    Great revamp Mike! Me like alot!
    G

  • http://www.chilibean.co.za Paul

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

  • http://www.theotherthomasotter.wordpress.com Thomas Otter

    looks great

  • http://www.d2.co.za Martin

    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!

  • http://www.d2.co.za Martin

    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!

  • Mark

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

    Completely understand your point :)

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  • http://www.mikestopforth.com Mike

    Thanks Martin! I really appreciate the feedback guys.

  • http://aidencholes.com Aiden

    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)

  • http://www.sabusinesshub.co.za/weblog Ben

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

    Looks great

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  • http://www.rafiq.za.net/blog rafiq

    How about putting the trackback button back on your posts?

  • http://www.aquilaonline.co.za Aquila

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

  • http://www.aquilaonline.co.za Aquila

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

  • http://doodeesthailand.blogspot.com/ Doodee

    Thanks for sharing