Redesign in progress
Its that time of year again. I’m feeling like i want to redesign my site, and so, i am doing so.
This current design is nice and pretty, but, outside Webkit and firefox, it can actually get kind of ugly. I have been playing around with various alternative design styles, and some of them have piqued my interest.
So, simply put, a new design is coming. Why should you care about this?
Because I’m going to release my current design into the wordpress theme marketplace. I know many people have asked for this theme, and it would be a pleasure to release.
Welcome!
Welcome to the new version of Paradox Designs. I worked on this version for just over four months, and it is better than the previous design for a number of reasons, such as:
- Cleaner code: This theme was coded 100% from scratch, so there is no sphagetti code, and no attempting to cover existing functionality with boilerplates or other hacks.
- Light CSS: Instead of using gradient images for backgrounds and all sorts of places, I took advantage of as many CSS3 properties as possible. So, if you are viewing the site in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox 3.6, it should look nice and pretty. If your viewing it on IE, well, you still get gradients, but they don’t look as good and you don’t get shadows and round corners
- No buggy jQuery: When I made the previous design, I was just getting into jQuery. As such, it was a bit, well, buggy. This site is much lighter on the Javascript. Gone are the featured post boxes, the tabs, the like (no one really ever used them anyway. I might bring them back later, but in a cleaner, better form.
Thats just a quick list.
Bear with me for a few days while I tighten all the bolts and get this ready for production. New articles are already waiting to be published!
Image from Flickr