Dec06
18
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.
Dec06
18
Posted in Life, etc.
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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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.
Hey Dave, your to quick for us
Working on that right this very moment!
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!
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.
Thanks for the positive feedback Chris, some nice ideas.
What you think Mike? Drop the contrast?
I reckon we drop the box altogether, dude. There’s an About Page, so we don’t need an about box.
RIP little box
Very very nice peeter !!!
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?
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
The date box stays - LOL
Great revamp Mike! Me like alot!
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Ooh, very nice Mike and Mark! I love the new look!!!
looks great
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!
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!
Haha. Thanks Martin. I will do that especially for you.
Completely understand your point
[...] I just saw Mike Stopforth’s blog’s new design and it is just awesome! The redesign was handled by Mark Forrester who has some pretty cool designs under his belt. [...]
Thanks Martin! I really appreciate the feedback guys.
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)
Wow Martin, seems you have a real eye for talent.
Looks great
[...] Just mentioned our local celebrigeek, So Close blogger, Tertia Albertyn in the previous post. She’s speaking at the Summber in Cape Town Geek Dinner. Following Mike’s facelift, Tertia now also wants to give her site a facelift. We’ll do it! [...]
How about putting the trackback button back on your posts?
damn awesome work there - well done ….so anyone interested in giving mine a makeover? haha
oh yeah - forgot to mention the fatal error code at the bottom of the page
Thanks for sharing