Well I’m finally done and the new design is live around the world!
On the whole I’m pleased with the way it’s gone. There are a few areas that I’ll be revisiting over the next week or so as time constraints meant I had to rush them (i.e. the header graphic, the comment form and the live search).
Total design and development time is about 7.5 hours - not bad for a day’s work!
New features include:
- Live Search
- A dinky use of the loop to provide a recent post and 3 others
- A load of new plugins to handle comments, gravatars and the like
- A new way of displaying my archives in cloud format
- NO SIDEBAR!!!
So what do you think? Comments are always welcome. In the mean time I’m going to go and stick my fingers in a buckets of cold water before they seize up.
01/05/2006 at 7:54 pm Permalink
Like it alot mate and it only took you 7.5 hours! What are Bank Holidays for anyway?
01/05/2006 at 9:29 pm Permalink
I like it. The lack of sidebar completely threw me at first, so actually Ctrl-F5-ed a few times! Couple of things:
Search page goes to a 404? (Is it just me being special?)
Livesearch on the fron page somewhere?
2nd most recent post, is the box meant to line up with the right-hand box? In other words, the grey gap!
Ok, I feel bad now for pointing those things out…given that you created this from scratch and I have merely adapted an existing template…you can beat me next weekend if you want
No seriously, I do like the new layout, despite my constructive criticism!
Greg
01/05/2006 at 10:56 pm Permalink
Ooh, nice.
But… the archives don’t work. May 2004, for example, just gives the homepage with a different title.
Nice design, though - certainly different to the old one
02/05/2006 at 1:37 pm Permalink
Mmm…pretty…
02/05/2006 at 3:41 pm Permalink
Thanks guys. Have tidied up a lot of the outstanding issues and everything seems to be working ok now. Here’s to the November reboot!