The New Layout of Design Sapling.com?
Well, last night, I spent some time designing a layout.
I’m not sure about the using this many colors. Maybe it’s too much.
The premise of the site is pretty cocky, so I figure I can get by with some bold colors
(update: Revised design May 20th)
May 29th, 2007 at 12:21 am
I like the design of the site a lot. Especially the header and logo. In fact, put a tm next to it and sue anyone who tries to steal it.
My only questions: Why is the header not an active link to the main page (this might not matter now, but could in the future when you have tons of posts)? Why do you have text overlapping the header? And finally, why does the color scheme change when making a comment?
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
The reason for the inconsistency in the site and the weird text-overlapping is because I haven’t finished the site yet. Instead of just using plain old html and CSS to make the site, I have to go through wordpresses PHP code and modify the PHP, which I don’t know very well. I haven’t had time to sit down and finish the site…until just now. So after today, it will be fixed.
Edit: The logo should now link back.
For those who know CSS, I used the Phark Image Replacement technique. (Notice the little blue “DesignSapling.com” text is gone).
Phark was also used with the menu items, along with the (I believe) Pixy Fast rollovers technique, whereby all the menu buttons and their rollovers states are in one image, eliminating flickering while rolling over. CSS is used to display the correct portion of the image for each button, and the shift the image up to display the rollover effect.