Well, we’ll try this out for a while and see how it goes.
- The theme is Vertigo Red by Brian Gardner, with some relatively minor page structure and CSS customizations by yours truly.
- A few things from the old site have been temporarily dropped, most noticeably the contact form, but I’ll be adding that back in along with some new functionality via plug-ins.
- Design-wise, I’m happy to keep red trombone guy as a site logo, but I’ll probably keep tweaking the header fonts and add some kind of a background image texture to the black.
- I’m also trying out Google Analytics with the new site to see how that compares with WordPress.com’s default stats.
I appreciate your patience if you stopped by earlier today and the site was “unavailable” or you ended up at one of my other projects. We should be “good to go” now…
9 Comments
This one is nice, although I’d prefer if the main content were in the middle.
Thanks for the feedback - I’ll play around with the layout and see if it works.
The header looks fantastic. I’m not a fan of three column layouts. I wonder how they would look on small screens. Overall this is really nice.
Jeff
Looks good ElShaddai, good theme choice. It will be interesting to see what plugins etc you choose to try out now that you have that flexibility.
Looks good!
@Jeff - I do understand your comment about 3 columns. I bounced between 2 and 3 several times on the WP.com site (my wife hates 3 column layouts as she prefers sites with discrete page content, like my Links page, rather than cramming stuff into the sides). I’ve tried to show restraint…
@Paul - Plugins are a whole new world. I definitely want to add functionality to subscribe to a post’s comments by email [ed. Done!] and maybe a WYSIWYG comment editor, but I haven’t thought about it too much beyond that.
@TC - thanks!
this looks fantastic…
and I like the text on the left not in the middle…. in the middle is FAR too symmetrical… but you want to get really nifty, move it to the right side
Thanks for the feedback, Roger. I’m trying to keep a little extra whitespace in the design - give things room to breath. There’s a two-column version of this theme that’s nice too, but I’m going to let this one set a while.
Another week, another theme to try… this one is Faleonis.