A new dawn
Its been a long time coming but the old leafy design is finally no more. After several months of work and a hand from a talented designer couple in Italy, the new design is as ready as ever to be launched. You’ll still see some changes continuing on over the next few days but the bulk of the work is done and there’s no sense in procrastinating any longer.
All of the illustrations and layout for the site were created by Brian and Claudia of Mestolando fame. This is now our 3rd collaboration together (with Mestolando being the first and Popular Wedding Favors being the second) and continues to build on what is turning out to be a successful partnership.
I’m off to continue updating the site but let me know if anything looks off. And if you’re browsing using your feed reader, be sure to click through and let me know how things look.
Comments
28. May 2007
I really dig the color scheme.
What was the main motivation to optimize for 1024px wide screens?
Really cool comments style by the way. any author specific styles on the way?
28. May 2007
This design is beautiful, But I’ve noticed one “annoyance” with the individual article pages in your textpattern-plugins section—the article body doesn’t appear in any kind of box or anything, causing two problems:
1. Dark blue text on a medium-blue background, which is a pain to read; and
2. At least on my screen, your sidebar gets pushed to below the article.
But overall, really cool, especially the comments style.
P.S. Also, on the article preview screen, the “Preview” and “Submit” buttons run together, and look like a single button.
29. May 2007
The new design is awesome. The way you’re displaying comments is particularly clever.
29. May 2007
Thanks everyone for the comments.
Angelo – The main reason for optimizing for 1024px is that 90% of my visitors have a screen width to accommodate it. The 10% below show a width of < 584px which I assume means they are bots.
Adam B – Thanks, a stray </div> tag was causing those pages to render incorrectly. Things should be back in order now.
31. May 2007
Oops, can’t believe this is YOU...
I like that rounded roof above the sidebar. And the comment clouds are simply great!
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