Nuevo Comienzo – Crystal DS
Thursday, August 7, 2008 @ 4:21 pm by -DS-Ya que tengo una “nueva vida” decidí, después de dos años, cambiarle el template a mi blog. Se ve mucho más organizado que el otro y mas dindo. Todavía me faltan par de cositas de arreglar y modificar pero lo que falta no va a cambiar mucho el cómo se ve. Tengo un problema con Internet Explorer que no deja que la página se cargue completa pero honestamente no se que carajos pasa pués puse el template original que trae Wordpress, deshabilite todos los plugins y siguió con el mismo problema, so, fuck it, no tengo tiempo para arreglar la página con IE. De todas formas el que esté utilizando ese browser hoy en día es porque se lo mete a la madre y no tiene derecho de ver mi super página.
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:15 PM
What i like the most son los tables abajo donde estan los recent post, comments etc. very stylish.. changes are good.
August 7th, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Why thank you for the indirect compliment!
*ahem-my design-cough-cough*
August 8th, 2008 at 1:19 PM
Not diggin’ it. The design is all over the place. The previous one, on the other hand, was stylistically coherent. I think Kaiser can do better than this (as he’s shown on countless other online projects).
August 8th, 2008 at 1:30 PM
That’s what happens when a programmer meddles with the design and demand certain things :p
I actually like it a lot better than the previous one because is not cluttered and way better organized.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:55 PM
Por que carajos las fotos de arriba tapan el titulo del Blog? Marroneo time? No se, parece un bug that needs a fixin’…
August 8th, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Tu monitor tiene una resolución muy pequeña
August 8th, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Alf, why don’t you pull a “Kaiser” and explain in detail what you don’t like? I mean I followed DS’s guidelines and I’m pretty satisfied with the result, considering he told me exactly what he wanted.
What exactly do you find all over the place? What rubbed you the wrong way? What’s busting your designer balls?
August 8th, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Fucking Gravatar work already!
August 9th, 2008 at 3:05 PM
ta chulo
IE suckea hairy balls bien durrrro
August 10th, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Kaiser: I find it stylistically all over the place. A few elements have a bit of “polish” (soft gradients), while others have a hell of a lot more “polish” (like where the menu is, at the top of the page), rendering two very disctinct looks that fail to uphold any sense of consistency. Then there’s the header, with its solid and moderately saturated colors, which would work wonderfully, were it not for all the different gradients that go in completely different directions. And then the main body column has a shadow at either side, yet the header, which seems to rest on top of it, casts no shadow whatsoever, breaking the illusion and pretty much defying the purpose of the shadows below it.
The margins are all out of whack, as well. While the contaning box that holds the actual post data has an outer margin that seems balanced enough (although I would argue it could use a bit more whitespace around it), it’s padding (the margin inside the box, for those not versed in the ways of css styling) is way too much on the top and bottom edges, and way (WAY!) too little on the left and right edges. What’s more, I question the very need of having a visible contaning box holding the post data inside the main column box. Granted, though, this contaning box does look a bit better on longer posts, and of course helps segregate posts in any multiple-posts-view (like search results and the home page). I just fail to see what good that box does in the single-post context.
Comments could use something to separate/segregate them from each other the way that the post-data container box thingie segregates multiple posts on the home page.
The footer looks like a good idea executed to the fucking max. There’s three boxes, and each includes an additional box inside it, plus the huge, aqua-like icons which just look sooo stock-ish. These three boxes really have nothing to do with the rest of the design, save for the font used in their headers. Again, these also feature padding values similar to the ones described above (I suppose, an “A” for consistency is in order, at least on this point). I prefer the way you designed these “footer boxes” on your site: very simple, well separated and organized without the need of extra crap around them that simply gets in the way of the content, rather than make it organized and readable.
Finally, the header, man. Something should be done about the thumbnails simply wrapping down and falling on the menu whenever the window isn’t wide enough. It’s one thing to say “fuck the people who are using anything below 1024″, it’s another to make the header content wrap down in a way that the design can’t support it, and thus breaks the fuck down like this.
I hope you find these comments useful.
August 10th, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Those seem like valid points, again, there are some things I asked for, like the header and the “footer boxes” or “lower content” as I call them.
Oh this:
That is just for consistency, it would look very, VERY weird otherwise.
Now, on the header thingy, I knew something like that would happen but I dont really care. This is not Wiisteria or El Monasterio where I have to keep those things in mind and style them for the least common denominator, here I just style it for me. I could take one picture from the header and avoid that, but I don’t want to, I am sorry for the ones that have a lower resolution than me, but I wont change the header just for that.
Now, on Kaiser’s behalf he just designed the overall look for the template but I was the one who came up with everything on the stylesheet and I am still tuning it, I am just taking it slow or adding other things like plugins and shit (like the useless but weirdly attracting twitter thingy)