Yes, it’s That Time Again. Theme Change Time.
So the Summer theme will have been quite short-lived, but I actually recently realized it was completely and horribly borked in IE7. And I started growing pretty tired of the header with horde and alliance logos around.
Which means that rather than trying to tweak stuff around to make it fit for IE7 consumption, I just started over with something a bit different.
Oh, of course, it’s not exactly a departure from my usual spartan theme design (read: I still couldn’t do decent graphic stuff to save my life), but here you go. New theme. Shazam or something.
Post text should be a bit indented, first couple of letters are hard to read due to background.
I would also suggest setting a smaller width for posts, there’s still plenty of people with 1024×768 (according to my sites stats, 24%).
I like it!
The graphics, while sparse, are visually pleasing and unobtrusive. One thing I would mention (and was mentioned previously), folks running at 1024×768 will have to side-scroll to see your sidebar (which many won’t bother to do). According to OneStat, 1024×768 accounts for ~57% of internet user resolutions.
Also, the comment input boxes and your post content are pressed right up against the edge of the browser window, which doesn’t give users a place to “rest their eyes” while in the middle of posting a comment or reading an article.
I hope that doesn’t sound like I’m being too critical. I do actually like the new design very much. The soft dark blue/turquoise is relaxing.
Thank you both for the feedback, 1024 width it is, then
Looks neat. My 2c?
- pop the dates into somewhere a little less prominent, as they are extra information only, and I’d bring up the size of the post text slightly to make it different from the other text.