Attention, entirely new theme - Gutsy Gibbon!

Published by Bart on Dec 6th, 2007 in Webmaster Playground with 10 Comments

Hello folks, after taking a little blog holidays I’m back, and I’m proud to announce that… Yes, I bring a brand new theme!

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Things you should know about:

  • I wanted to make it clean & juicy, thankfully it looks like both of my goals were accomplished
  • It’s based on the frame of Wordpress theme made by Chinese buddy. Despite of the fact that this design doesn’t look that good, his code was pretty fine and adjusting it to all of my crotchets was trouble-free and quite comfortable
  • Choosing a good logo was the most challenging part of my work. Although I don’t have many problems in web design, every time when I need to develop a logotype I’m starting to realize that all of my GIMP know-how is not enough to make a good one. So I did a little research, checked few variants, and finally decided to use one of icons available in Tux’n'Tosh.
  • Color scheme comes from my favorite distribution of Linux, of course. In spite of all of my liking, I haven’t put Ubuntu logo into header section - it would be suggesting that author of that blog writes about Linux basically. As far as I know he doesn’t ;)

Okay, time to response to all of your recent comments & cut through the sea of unread items in Google Reader…

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  1. Richard Chmura says:
    December 6th, 2007 #

    Welcome back Bart! :) I was worried that maybe you ripped the internet out of your PC! ;P

  2. Florchakh says:
    December 6th, 2007 #

    Hey Richard, but where’s your opinion about new theme? Email responses are scheduled for tomorrow ;)

  3. Richard Chmura says:
    December 6th, 2007 #

    I like it! But there is one stat program missing… ;)

  4. Marc says:
    December 7th, 2007 #

    Interesting new theme. But the blog title font looks like Comic Sans! -1000 points for that.

  5. paulette says:
    December 8th, 2007 #

    That’s good to hear that you have a new blog theme. Making logo is really challenging. You have to really to think of a concept before making one

  6. MerDuriaN says:
    December 9th, 2007 #

    Glad to heard you had changed a new theme.. Anyway Not used to the new theme @@

  7. Jon Holato says:
    December 10th, 2007 #

    I digg the new theme Bart. I’ve been thinking of changing my theme for a while now, although I’ve been hesitating because the SEs seem to like it. However your new theme inspires me to go to work and be creative. Job well done.

    p.s. While you were gone I became a Gutsy Gibbon user as well! ;)

  8. Florchakh says:
    December 10th, 2007 #

    @ paulette - indeed there’s no way to start without an idea. But usually this is not a big problem, every one can have a good one, The situation is getting worse when you want to get the show on the road - you simply need to have the knack for doing it.

    @ MerDuriaN - thanks Vicki. New one received only one negative feedback so far, and I think I am contented with it :)

    @ Jon - If you wanna change the look like there’s no need of modifying current structure of your site. It should be enough to play with CSS

    PS I know I read your blog regularly ;)

  9. David Hopkins says:
    December 12th, 2007 #

    I like the typeface you have used for the main post. Nice clean design.

  10. Florchakh says:
    December 23rd, 2007 #

    Thanks for your feedback David, I am glad you enjoyed. Especially when I think about your practice of profession :P

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