Blog redesign
Wednesday, 27 October, 2004
I'm currently thinking about doing a blog redesign and am mining the web for ideas. A useful place to begin has always been the CSS Zen Garden where designers take up the challenge of pusshing CSS to the limits by just changing the stylesheet. My favourites are:
Update: I like how the divs have different coloured backgrounds and that the date comes first, then title, then no. of comments here. And SixFoot6 is just gorgeous. Elsie would love this site (it's got recipes).
- Salmon Cream Cheese: I love how the colours are all kind of pinky-brown-orange and that, on the left sidebar, the headings are aligned to the right and interrupt the strip of background.
- Wicked Grove: I like the header; the rest is pretty ordinary.
- RPM: I like how the text boxes have a 3D look to them.
- Coastal Breeze: I love the graphics on this one—the little curly Florentine motifs, the windblown headings on the right sidebar, the framing of the main content.
- Golden Mean: The headings of the centre column have an image as the background; the other headings have the key word in a different font.
- Not so Minimal: Very simple and clean design—lots of blues (I like blue!) and repetition of the arrow motif.
- Mnemonic: I especially like the wedge on the right—my goodness, this designer has even made the menu items align with the curve.
- Zunflower: Bright with very cool overlapping of divs.
- Atlantis: I love the header and how the image bleeds into the background of the top div.
- White Lily: I like the use of shading, the lined backgrounds, the accenting of the orange stamen through headings.
- Prêt-à-Porter: The woman's head stays on the left as you scroll across and the text fades into it. The design is very different!
- Door to my Garden: Greyscale. Background stays where it is when you scroll. I like the parentheses and the curls that appear at the top and bottom.
- HoriZental: This one has got to be my favourite of the lot (maybe it's the oriental lilies). It's very cool how things bleed beyond their boundaries
- First Summary: Headings on the right instead of on top are interesting.
- Postage Paid: Looks cool but maybe not practical for a blog like mine.
- Gecko's Eye: Header doesn't dominate the top but it still stands out frome the middle.
- This is Cereal: Nice graphics, funky buttons and menus, bad puns.
- A Silent Strength: A bit grungy yet beautiful and simple. I like the palette.
- Lost HighWay: The main heading is on the side. Header 2s have the same background as the page background, only lighter.
- Lotus: I like how it uses quite a number of different colours but they go together well. I like the shading, the header image reaching down into the rest of the page, the little images behind the header 2s.
- Springtime: This is just very cute.
- Oceans Apart: Blocky but nice. I like how the links have a background colour though I wonder how annoying that would get.
- Tulipe: Very pretty (I like flowers. Digital ones. For some reason I'm not heaps into real ones.)
- Japanese Garden: Content starts right from the top; header 1 appears on the left. Bamboo leaves fade behind divs.
- No Frontiers: Outside divs share the same diagonal slants background which fades downward. Different coloured bullet images. Heading 1 is in the top left corner; header image stands alone. Rounded divs are kind of cool.
- Odyssey: Wow, I like everything about this one—the borders, the bullets, the headings, the graphics, etc. I like how they've kept it very flat.
- Burnt Offering: The mouseovers are cool.
- Some Leafs: Torn edge. The recurring leaf image gets a bit annoying though.
- Centrefold: I like how everything is oriented towards the centre line.
- Teatime: I've always been a fan of curly headings.
- Contemporary Nouveau: I love the shape of the header and the clean design of the right sidebar. The patterning on the backgrounds is very subtle but it's still there.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Good grief! Did you go through all of them?
You’ve probably seen it, but this morning I was plumbing netdiver.net for design ideas…
Of course I went through them all; what else am I going to do when there’s nothing to do at work?
Thanks for the link—haven’t seen that before.
Well, you could start writing a novel.
That would require more brain cells than I bring to work.
oh i loved looking at most of those!!! hehe. i like the lillies too one of my favourite flowers
i need to learn how to work with adobe shop more so i can do stuff with graphics - merging and so forth
Me too—I’m a bit scared of it.