Teasing A New Design

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Alex Denning in WPShout Updates

I’ve been telling of a new WPShout design for a while now and it’s very nearly ready, just needing some more TLC! I hope to have the new look live on Monday when I’ll also be starting off a couple of weeks of amazing content – some really great posts are lined up. The screen above shows the homepage. A quick bit of dissection:-

• The logo is text with @font-face and text-shadow.
• Links have a super cool effect on them
• The large image at the top cycles through a number of posts and remains on pages too.
• The body text has some discrete text-shadow on it, helping it stand out from the background.
• Changing the background completely changes the look of the site (which Ben inspired me to do). I’ll be doing that a lot.
• It’s quite probably the best design I’ve done. Ever!

The new look will be live on Monday – I’ll post again then with some more details.

This competition then. Thanks to all who entered and offered feedback. Some points arising out of that are:

• The majority (about two thirds) want to see exciting new types of post, although the remaining third liked the list posts, so they’ll stick around.
• There was clear indication that two posts a week isn’t the end of the world.
• Screencasts don’t seem popular at all.
• You want an RSS feed! Fine. Have one. You’ll be missing out on beautiful post design though

The winners are Mark Marshall and Tracy Tureson (chosen randomly). You two can email me to claim your prize (within a week please!) of a theme of your choice from Gabfire. Thanks to all who entered; really helpful.

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