Sunday 9th
March

New Theme

Finished :)

Now I need to code it. Coding has begun.

Why so soon? This isn’t very easy on the eyes, and therefore to increase usability for both me and for you (the reader), I wanted something a bit darker. I only found out yesterday how to get that textured gravel affect on the background, which I had tried to do for Open Eyes.. so I used that :P
The notebook, is actually from something I made for Seth during the week…. except I revamped it a little. The spirals did run along the top, and it was red.
Then of course in true Nicola fashion, I added some cute icons around the place :D
The sidebar = not cemented as a style yet. The content, that is. It looks a bit weak. The ‘latest works’ part needs to be in the same style as the boxes beneath it.

So, expect to see some changes to this blog in the next few days. Once I get the main stuff sorted I’ll need to put it on here while I sort out the other parts inherent to this blog, rather than my temporary test blog.

Comments and criticism are appreciated, as always.

5 Responses to “New Theme”

  1. Mar
    9
    10:57 pm

    Wolt says:


    Looks good Nicola. =]

  2. Mar
    10
    1:34 am

    Existence4 says:


    Professional and easy on the eyes. <3

  3. Mar
    10
    11:00 am

    Steve says:


    And who said Sundays where boring? =p

    Very good Nicola, I love the little icons. ^_^

  4. Mar
    12
    12:03 am

    Choco says:


    Haha, awesome job on the new design. :D

    Only problem I can see is the coding of the left main content area. Good luck with that. XD

    As for why you need luck for that:
    The notebook spirals will probably be a repeating background image, right? So the content area has to be an exact mutliple of the height of the background image of the notebook spirals.
    So if one spiral repeat is 15px high, the main content area has to be 30px, 45px, 60px, 75px….150px….450px…(and the rest) tall. It can’t be 39 or anything other than a multiple of 15 because then at the bottom of the content area there’ll be only part of one notebook spiral and then abruptly the bottom-of-the-notebook image.

    You’ll probably have to use JS to adjust the padding-bottom of the main content area depending on how tall it is to get it to the nearest 15. Or you could use some super-awesome CSS trick to make it work. XD

  5. Mar
    12
    12:05 am

    Nicola says:


    Already accounted for ;)

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