New Theme (Coming Soon)
For the past few days, a new WordPress theme for Command-Tab has been under construction, and now it’s about time to go from Photoshop to HTML. Before I do, I thought I would ask for your comments and criticism. Clicking on the image at right will take you to a mock-up of what I’ve been busy working on.
As you can see in the preview, I plan on adding a Sidenotes column (perhaps using the fQuick plugin) for tidbits of information, and I’ll also be bringing back the Dugg Stories sidebar. If I have time, I may also add a Del.icio.us sidebar using the public API or mysqlicious.
All in all, it looks like my new design is coming together nicely, in terms of both design and features. Suggestions, ideas, and even honest criticism are all welcome.
October 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Much better than the bland grey background i always found annoying to the eyes, looking good.
October 1st, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Looks really immense, especially the floating columns on the side. Can’t wait to see it in action…
October 2nd, 2006 at 4:41 am
It looks a little squashed to me, but apart from that I quite like it - very Web two-point-oh. ;)
October 2nd, 2006 at 10:19 am
I’m not crazy about the way the current “sidenotes” section is designed. What if you used some sort of “dashboard sticky” look-alike for “notes”. It just doesn’t fit well with the awesome blue header. The dugg stories sidebar Is much better.
I wouls suggest using some BRIGHT ORANGE or GREEN colors. You can’t just leave that neon blue header without anything else to hold onto.
Also, there needs to be some kind of TITLE in the middle column. NEWS HERE… or something like that.
Are we sold on the 3 column approach? what about 2?
October 2nd, 2006 at 8:17 pm
I take it that I’m the only one that likes the current theme…
October 7th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
i like the current logo personaly. That format is better though. I think that you did leave a bit to much room width wise for the side notes. You should shrnk that down to 75%it’s size. And the shine on the blue bars is a bit bright for me, mabey a blue with hex value of 66ffff and alpha of 45. Other that that its good. Im here for my first time however, so that may make me prejudice.
December 25th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
I like it very much but the background is too light, it stands in the way somehow. How about you try to darken it a little, try something like this colour #003674.
Same with the links text colour, just a notch too light, maybe the same #003674 colour would be better.