 | Pick our next layout! Posted on Thursday, the 18th of June 2009 at 2:18 am |
Alrighty, I've included below links to various themes and designs I'm considering for use at WGFriends. Bear in mind that my goal is to integrate WGF with various other social platforms, enabling the greatest "spreading of the word" possible about our community and the games we play.
Take a look at these designs and let me know which you like (or if you find another that you like, send it my way). Thanks!
- John
A dark text/light background: http://web2feel.com/monezine/
Light text/dark background:http://web2feel.com/remedy/
Ultra minimal (colors will be tweaked): http://kailoon.com/tutorial/magazine/preview.png
And again, if you know of another or "only like this one if this is changed," let me know!
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I`m just rolling my own (again), but this time I`m trying to stick to as simple a look as I can, and it`s gonna be light text, dark bg. I`ll post a screenshot as soon as I have one.
- John
Big fan of dark backgrounds with lighter text.
Well, that`d certainly mak it work then. :)
I was trying to view them in Opera (under linux) and the monezine one resolves to a blank page for me. It says it`s done loading, but nothing`s there.
Keep in mind though, my results might very well be tainted by my ISP (HughesNet) which frequently gives me headaches trying to reach certain sites. Usually it`s primarily TMC that HughesNet can only resolve some times during each day, but that certainly doesn`t mean they don`t have issues with other sites as well. On the other hand, both the monezine and remedy links were to the same web2leet.com and the remedy link did work just fine for me. *shrug* (I really have learned very quickly to hate HughesNet and I strongly recommend to anyone even remotely considering them as an ISP to find an alternative, preferably an alternative to satellite altogether, but definitely an alternative to HughesNet.)
The kailoon.com link takes forever to return a "could not connect to remote server" error, but again that may be related to the issues I have with HughesNet. (Usually when it doesn`t want to resolve TMC for me I get a "Unable to resolve DNS" error, but it could very easily amount to the same thing.)
Hmm... The first one works fine on Firefox (for me), but it didn`t on Safari -- weird. Guess that one`s out!
The third one should be working... at least it did for me in both places.
In any case, I`m going to build the new layout to work with any (or at least most) WordPress themes, and there are literally tens of thousands of those floating around (including Remedy), so it`ll be easy to switch if need be.
Not sure if it`s my end or not, but I was only able to get to the middle link of the three. Remedy is not a bad theme, in my opinion, but I can`t compare it to it`s alternatives without being able to see them. On the other hand, I`d have no complaints about you using that theme as far as I can tell at the moment.