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New Design - Liquid Width For Better Reading
I’d like to explain for the lack of posts that were written for the last 7 days - I was developing this new Wordpress theme for my blog. It features a liquid width, which means that it will expand to match the size of your browser, no matter what your resolution. In simpler terms, it means that it is easier to read for you.
The New Blog Design Features:
- An original logo designed by im3d - I’d like to thank him for the fantastic job he did with the customized B and Bloggervenue.com for the refferal (Oddly enough, through a post that he did on his new logo).
- More organized sidebar with the use of ubër cool icons.
- Dynamic width of content and sidebar depending on your screen resolution.
- A New Favicon - the logo looks great even shrunk
- Link Highlights - any links on the the blog will highlight a light green when you scroll over it.. meaning that it is clickable.
- Search boxes that will clear upon people clicking them - faster searches/email subscriptions.
- Interesting navigation bar, high-lights upon scrolling over it.
Of course, no design that I’ve (or anyone else) coded is perfect. I realize that it might take a while before it is completely polished, or if I decide to add new features to the design.. Can’t really think of anything right now that would benefit the reader.
If any glitches or design errors arise while your visiting the site, I simply ask you to comment on this post or contact me directly via email. You’d be helping me out with problems that I didn’t forsee during the testing that I did. Thanks, and heres to some more great content with a slick new design!
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7:21 pm on September 24th, 2008
Hi, Brad
Nice new theme design the the new logo looks awesome. So do the icons in the sidebar and in the comment box.
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7:29 pm on September 24th, 2008
Wow, this is awesome Brad. Cool logo on the ‘B’ though I feel that the choice of text could be made better, perhaps using a different font. All in all, it’s definitely a much better design than the previous one.
Congrats and good luck, buddy. I’m loving it.
Yan
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8:46 pm on September 24th, 2008
This theme is cooler than before and it’s easy reading. Hope it gives you more spirit.
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9:55 pm on September 24th, 2008
Nice new look!
I definitely love that liquid feature. It treats my browser like it’s special
It also looks a lot cleaner with all the white surrounding it!
Nice job!
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6:31 am on September 25th, 2008
Cool theme!
Liquid layouts are kinda rare.
I don’t like splash of green in header. Too toxic and doesn’t really match anything on page.
Search/subscribe forms clear on click but do not restore if you click away from empty form (which is simple but looks cool).
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12:31 pm on September 25th, 2008
Great job on the redesign! I always get excited when I visit sites that have just gone through a makeover.
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1:39 pm on September 26th, 2008
Looks great Brad! You don’t see many liquid layouts about. Great idea
I love the sidebar most of all. It’s so clean, the icons looks great and the rollover effect is perfect! Well done.
There’s a slight bug on your search results page though. Some PHP errors, but the search still works, so it’s nothing bad!
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4:15 am on September 27th, 2008
@ Michael - Thanks for the heads up. I’ve fixed the problem (Was just some simple template tags that I forgot to replace.)
4:29 am on September 27th, 2008
Oooh…fancy new digs Brad!
Really like the new logo, it pops out nice and fresh. And I LOVE the liquid layout. I’ve got a big wide 24 inch monitor so it’s nice the blog fits my screen without any maneuvering or browser resizing required. Are the icons in the sidebar custom?
The green highlight is nice too to emphasize that it’s a link…might have to borrow and build on that idea for a few of my sites.
The B in the header is wicked pimp.
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5:07 am on September 27th, 2008
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1:07 am on September 30th, 2008
The design looks very functional
Glad to see that you used IM3D services. i have referred a few new clients to him. i should get some comissions from him loool
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6:45 pm on September 30th, 2008
Your design is still old fashioned but it’s definitely better than the other one!
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