This blog sucks. I mean, not the information, but the design. It's horrid. It's boring. I have had folks offer to help me out (and I appreciate it!), but I'm just too lazy.
So, here is a challenge for someone bored. If you can give me a new design for this blog, something I can just extra from a zip and go with, I'll give you.... um.... well.... nothing. But I will give you a link. I'll also praise you and tell member of the opposite sex that you are either a) smart, b) super strong, or c) all of the above. I'll flatter you on a post that contains the best Google keywords so your name shows up all over the web.
Really.
So - anyone up to it? Some guidelines:
When I say I just want to extract a zip - I mean it. You should simply overwrite the CSS, the index.cfm, and the pod layout code. I don't really care much about the popups for comment editing.
I love green. Something green would be nice. Not poopoo green as my two year old would say, but dark, warm greens like Hunter Green or "I'm an Important Guy with an Expensive Dark Office" Green. While it isn't very green, this is a good example of the kind of shading, font style, etc, I'm looking for.
Keep the title text if possible. I'm thinking of renaming the blog, so having that part as text would be helpful.
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Look for my upcoming blog post, "Build me a house"!
My townhouse sucks, and I'm can't scrape together the 6 figure downpayment for a home in my neighborhood.
I, too, like green, and no not that poo poo green either. I was thinking sea foam green with black trim. Oh, and it must have shutters, a Brady sunroom, and a pool table in the basement. While I'm not so interested in the sweaty thugs in the front yard, this ( http://tinyurl.com/4vzcq ) is a really awful example of what it shouldn't look like.
So build me a house and I will give you a link from my blog.
Oh come on. You are just jealous that your blog isn't as cool looking as mine - what with my stylish use of blue (well, two shades of blue ) and.... err... white - and black. My design reigns supreme!
Ray, I did you a design a while back, what happened to that?
Dave Hill
I still have it. As I said in the post, I'm being lazy. ;) I do appreciate it and I hope you don't think otherwise. I'd like some more options before I change everything.
I know what you mean, I have been trying to do a layout for my website that is suitable for both 'me' and 'my content'. I think I am close, but I have been side tracked by web standards.
dude.
look @ erats blog, looks like aura combined with blgCFC to me?
steve? right?
tw
Tony: Yes. In fact, Steve sent me the zip, but I haven't had the time to work with it yet. (Hence the note about being lazy.)
Joe Rinehart released a BlogCFC+Aura starter kit here:
http://clearsoftware.net/cl...
Ray,
oswd.org
go there and pick out what you want. Almost all the designs there are CSS based and they are free.
here is a link for you:
http://www.oswd.org/search....
Check it out guys. I just gotta pick a nicer color (greenish). Anyone recommend a good color scheme picker?
I like the new style! The shadows give it a nice depth, and since you opted to not have a banner image, its still lightweight on graphics.
Looks very Flexy, too ;-)
i like your aura ray
:) tw
All credit goes to Joe. All I did was extract a zip. ;)
maybe give it some space @ the top?
the title looks a bit cramped...
change the
containerheadcontenttitle
in the css to have "padding:2px"
or something like that?
Its a slippery slope. Once you start changing visual layout and graphics, it gets very tedious very quickly.
You could just add a couple break tags to the top of layout.cfm to add space at the top but you'll lose the glow/aura/shadow at the top, but notice on TalkingTree.com that I have a top glow. I used the footer graphic as a starting point, turned upside down, and did a few modifications. A lot of work, but it looks smooth on top and has a little empty space.
Set aside a chunk of time before you get involved in all this...
Steve: Sorry, but I added a top graphic. Thanks go to Dave Hill.
looks dope, the new header!
great idea dave.
one thing... :) yellow background on your day of the month on the calendar should be NOT YELLOW?
right?
Tony - what color would you suggest?
me personally, one of the colors in your header... actually a couple shades lighter....
#bcda8f
:) me
That banner is way cool!
Hey, nice mod on the banner Tony :)
definately needed a tag line!
Whoa, this is sharp! Nice banner, Dave!
hmmm... maybe i should do a selection of banners without text to go with the Aura template. What you think Joe?
Ok...I finally got around to doing this. I used a design from oswd.org with minor changes (I posted the details at www.remotesynthesis.com/blo.... I can get you the files if you like. Obviously whomever used it would need to put a different logo image (or text) and background (if they like). Let me know if you are interested and I will send over the zip.
Actually I'm pretty happy with the current design - but send it over - I'm curious.
Raymond,
Thanks for the cool blog. I spent some time modding it, mostly through CSS and some file editing, and came up with this:
<br><br><a href="http://www.zenbeatstudios.c..." target="_blank">The Blog</a><br><br>
I look forward to your next update. :)
Cheers,
James
Dang nice - however - the top logo isn't centered in Firefox.
Thanks Raymond. I hadn't reloaded Firefox after the re-installation of DW earlier this week. I'm glad you spotted that. It's fixed now. :)
Thanks again!