Comments on: Emphasis Theme Preview: Design Critique

By: admin

admin — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:29:18 +0000

Update:

The theme is almost complete and will be released in about a week.

Also I forgot to mention that this free theme is GPL compliant so you can do whatever you like with it.

Stay tuned!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:22:55 +0000

I have taken your comments into consideration and have now started coding! Keep more ideas coming though, since I will be making tweaks as I go.

@Ain – Thanks for the feedback. I agree with ditching the floating dates. Or at least the rounded corners. I’ll keep playing around with it!

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:50:05 +0000

I like how the top part with the headline comes above the content with the shadow. Rather neat that one.

I’d lose the round corners on date rectangles though and go with the general shadow idea there as well.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:55:44 +0000

@Rob Barham – I wasn’t planning on designing a full-width version, but if I have extra time I will include it as another template. It really isn’t very hard to code.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:54:30 +0000

@Greg – I think you’re right about the dates. I’ll look into a way to redesign that. Thanks for the rest of the feedback!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:53:05 +0000

@Tim B. – The top navigation is easy to change (Just CSS). The grid is actually based on the 950 grid from BluePrint. Though I don’t think I will use their grid.css file. Glad you like it!

By: Tim B.

Tim B. — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:24:08 +0000

Like a lot. The top nav is a bit big for my taste, but not hard to customize. Flexible grid system, or so it would appear. All in all, I’m enjoying it.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:11:01 +0000

The dates for the home page don’t really fit the design. Nothing else has rounded corners except the search button and the comment bubble (which hardly look rounded). I would ditch the date box floating off to the side and just have it as a column next to the post. This keeps inline with the rest of the design.

I agree with Rob above, a full width option will be nice.

With the sidbar content I feel like having it a lighter shade of the green would help bring everything together. Not sure how I feel about the side bar floating off like it does, I would contain it… but thats just me.

By: Rob Barham

Rob Barham — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:26:57 +0000

Looks lush, would be great if the date markers would be an optional feature, and another option I love is when pages can be full width and lose the sidebar.

Thanks