If you’re reading this your feedback is required. I’m redesigning my blog by heavily hacking up Squible to the point I probably won’t be able to upgrade past 2.5 alpha. Oh well so be it. Here’s what I’m doing.
The color scheme
I’m trying a salmon (pink) and blue color scheme. I wanted to try something I wouldn’t normally do and I kind of like it even though it creeps me out. Normally I’d just do black and grey so this is a refreshing change.
The header
The header of the page is designed to look like a torn up news paper an there is a live flickr feed that has been styled to resemble polaroid photos. The idea was to make the site resemble a dirty torn up unreliable newspaper to make it even less “trustworthy”.
The content (style)
Overall the site is using serif fonts to resemble a newspaper rather than more screen friendly fonts such as Arial, Verdana, etc. The content is using the less is more approach. There are just some lines and slight background touches to spruce things up a little but but otherwise from that the text is text and nothing more to take your eye away from that fact.
I’m not even close to being done.
I still have to style the interior footers and comments so stay tuned but let me know if you like the direction.
Chuck Reynolds Says:
2:37 pmDec 26Well, I mentioned to you in AIM that the part where the ‘paper’ tears into the white, that it’s a little too rough, but rough as in a hard blocky brush as in a softer grainy type of brush (in psd I mean). Just looks too blocky to have been torn.
You had asked me about the color theme - it’s different, but cool, and thus far I’m liking it. I can definately see a faded blue working in. What’s with you and grunge 2.0 anyways? lol. JLT, BDA, now this… heh
I still say your content copy is too small - I’d go with em instead of a fixed 12px courier or whatever.
I do like the flickr work in up in the header - that’s cool. Let me know when the changelog is updated.
Matt Jones Says:
12:11 pmDec 28Awesome site Jim! The redesign looks fun. I’m thinking about redoing mine and upgrading to WP 2.0.
I like the colors and I agree with Chuck that the paper is a little rough and your flickr photos in the header are really cool! I don’t really like the 100% width but other than that, you’ve made the Squible theme look a lot better.
Good luck and have fun redesigning!
Tim Patterson Says:
2:16 amDec 29“If your reading this your feedback is required.”
The contraction “you’re” (note the apostrophe) is needed in this case (not “your”) as a substitution for “you are”.