So, I've finally got round to giving my blog a well needed new design, so, what do people think? I personally think it is a great improvement from the previous lifeless design.
In the course of designing this, I found there were no plugins that displayed the recent comments like I wanted. So I wrote my own. That will, of course, be made public shortly.
This was also far easier to make than the previous one, as when I made that, WordPress was on alpha 3, and the only reference I had to create a style from was the 2 existing styles. Not fun. Now, however, I have a whole codex containing documentation, every function is documented now, which made theming WordPress easy.
Comments
Neil Kelty says…
Edit comment — May 15, 2005 10:25:19+01:00
There is nothing to this....It is completely lifeless????
Neil sits and ponders why Geoffers used this style?
Ollie says…
Edit comment — May 15, 2005 15:49:56+01:00
Nice stuff ;) .
Jamie says…
Edit comment — May 15, 2005 18:30:33+01:00
Well done ;)
Geoffrey Sneddon says…
Edit comment — May 15, 2005 20:11:10+01:00
OK, I've done some tweaking now :)
jon says…
Edit comment — May 17, 2005 00:16:16+01:00
it's "clean"...the fading image for some reason or another is possibly more annoying than a "normal" image would be. and it keeps changing...where's your branding, son?! :)
j(hey you asked!)
Geoffrey Sneddon says…
Edit comment — May 17, 2005 03:10:35+01:00
Change is a good thing :P
Seriously though, it does look better with the pading image, as someone who had seen it without the fades :)
Geoffrey Sneddon says…
Edit comment — May 18, 2005 04:23:53+01:00
Time to tell you what posts I have planned:
They'll be appearing... In some order... Maybe a couple of posts inbetween :P
ronald says…
Edit comment — May 19, 2005 07:00:49+01:00
Geoff,
Nice! Maybe set the central section a bit off from the page background, like a couple of subtle borders?
Geoffrey Sneddon says…
Edit comment — May 20, 2005 01:56:43+01:00
I've been thinking about doing that, but the fact that the white is part off the header images is what is putting it off, I've been thinking of various ways to seperate it, but, my mind is yet to be made up.
Geoffrey Sneddon says…
Edit comment — May 20, 2005 06:10:45+01:00
Well, added a background colour, decided to do it like so...
Geoffrey Sneddon says…
Edit comment — May 21, 2005 00:15:15+01:00
Hmm... Decided I for one don't like it...
Neil Kelty says…
Edit comment — August 30, 2006 07:51:44+01:00
Browsing and i found this - let me give an update to my previous response. My browser grabbed a version with no style sheets. :)