9.Dec.2007 at 12:12 pm | hso
Weekend Reboot - New Design Based on Gluttony by Small Potato
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If you are a frequent visitor, you will notice that the site was rebooted over the weekend using a fabulous design by WP Designer.
For the sake of comparison, I have included an image (linked to demo) of the original theme Gluttony along with a screenshot of the current version.
Of course the design is more than just CSS hacks, we added numerous conditional statements to make the experience more user friendly. The design itself was made reverse compatible for all versions of WP. The sidebar was moved to the right. SEO corrections for pagination, content flow, headings were made. The design includes an image map header with links to key parts of the site, it also includes CSS based tabbed navigation, Asides, differentiation of post based on imprtance (featured = full content and regular post = excerpt) and other site specific enhancements.
Also, we did break the norm once more and kept the site left aligned and within 800px. Eventually we will move towards a more flexible and adaptive design like the recent reboot on Mandarinmusing.
Based on my user tracker, many of our users are still using 1024px or less screen resolution, so I decided to wait until the next reboot to make a fluid design that will work across all browser and resolutions.
1. JHS | December 9, 2007 #
Too much wasted space for my taste. On my 22″ widescreen monitor, a full 1/3 of the page is blank gray.