New Looks
October 09, 2008 @ 10:00 AM 
7 Comments
I have to admit that it’s about time that I got off my ass and did something about the site. This layout is based on the Dailypress theme by blogohblog.com but I have not used any of their images or coding. I liked the set-up of the layout but build it from scratch myself and changed quite a few things around. Actually, looking at it now it doesn’t look the same at all, although there are a few similarities.
The layout still has to grow on me; pink is generally not my thing. But so far I like it. I’m in the middle of tweaking things though so you might still find a few errors here and there. The best thing about it, is that I learned a few new things with CSS 
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What do you think of the layout? Suggestions about changes are always welcome!
EDIT: Thank you all for the input, keep it coming. I now have fixed the text / input areas as well as added some butterflies around the search box. The image there is not perfect yet, I still have to tweak it a bit. But I hope it fills up the empty spaces in that area.
7 Comments on "New Looks"
Jessica says:
Amanda says:
Yeah, I’m just going to echo Jess on all those points.
Chans says:
You guys are quicker than me!
I was in the middle of changing Jessica’s points regarding the text and input areas!
Can you tell me what resolutions you are using so I can see what’s needed to make the header look more filled up?
Amanda says:
I think I’m on 1280×800, so a widescreen. I’d reduce the height of the header perhaps, and maybe even move the tagline to the right, rather than the left.
Jessica says:
I’m using the same resolution as Amanda. Reducing the height of the header might be a good idea. You could move the tagline to directly underneath the site name (rather than underneath the butterfly) and cut the header image off directly under the butterfly’s legs — that should save at least 50px. To shorten it any more than that, you’d have to shrink the butterfly, and I think I like its largeness.
I’m not sure moving the tagline to the right is a good idea — at least, it seems to me that it would still be unbalanced. The tagline is smaller than the butterfly and site name, and shaped differently as well. Perhaps a tall image to the right side would work?
I hope I’m being helpful.
Melissa says:
I’m the worst for downloading a theme and tweaking it until it fits my site, I can’t remember the last time that I coded a theme from scratch.
The only suggestion that I have is that the search box looks a bit boring up there in the corner - like Jessica said it’d look better if it look like it was part of the design with little butterflies around it or something similar!
Felisa says:
I actually quite like it. I usually don’t like pink on blogs because it usually gives me a headache! But your new layout is simple enough that it doesn’t make me feel dizzy. I like what you’ve done with the butterflies around the search engine but maybe you can omit one or two of them to make it less busy?? Just a suggestion. It’s totally up to you. It’s fine the way that it is but I feel like it might look more polished with less butterflies or smaller butterflies or something like that.
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I like the general look of it, and the colours. The main suggestion I have is to change the colour of the text in the input/textareas - it’s currently white on light grey!
The other thing is that the header is REALLY tall, and (since I have a wide resolution) it looks kind of empty to the right-hand side. Perhaps some pink decorative images around the search box (butterflies? flowers? I don’t know what…) would help even it out.
I really like the colours, though. The grey and pink go well together.