Spring Fresh OB1og
As you noticed right away, the blog looks a lot different. This design is something I whipped up over the weekend. I put away the one I was working on — as cataloged in Walk This World — in favor of something new.
This color scheme may not reflect me very well, but I did want to go for something with Spring-like colors to celebrate the time of year. In fact, it’s very Eastery too. The other stuff I had going on was a bit dark and not quite right, maybe better for Winter, so it could make an appearance then.
You may notice that there’s a lot of coming soon kind of stuff going on. I hope to have that stuff available soon-ish. Having this out there will drive me to keep working on that instead of fussing over color palette’s and pixel placements.
Hopefully I can live with this for a little while. I’ll tell you it already reminds me of a Crate and Barrel catalog. I dunno if that’s good or bad. I guess you’ll let me know.
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Ed
Thu :: 13 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 08.37 pm
I like the new design and your season specific color scheme. I can’t wait for Hallowwen when you bust out the browns and burnt siennas and dress the site in all those pics of you as Jack Skellington.
JFCC
Fri :: 14 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 03.42 pm
I hate to be a party pooper, but I find the new design a bit…frenetic…it’s like a koala crapped a rainbow in my brain!
Sean
Fri :: 14 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 04.57 pm
Interesting imagery… I happen to like koalas, so good for them for crapping rainbows in your brain — I didn’t even know they could do that — for crapping on my site! 😉
Frenetic? I don’t know that it is frenetic.
“Wildly excited or active; frantic; frenzied.”
I thought I was striking a decent balance between white and color, no? Is it just that the colors are so bright? Too many different colors? I was originally limiting myself to the blue and green only, but I threw in the orange, purple and yellow after some thought. I didn’t want people thinking I can only do blue and green! 🙂
Noelle
Sat :: 15 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 12.19 am
I happen to like all the pretty colors but I’m a ‘girl’ so aren’t I supposed to?! Definitely stick with some color but as mentioned, perhaps limit it to the blue & green. I think that combination looks cool.
Sean
Sat :: 15 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 01.50 am
@JFCC – What do you think of this yellow?! 😉
Just goofing. I’m seriously interested in you expounding on your previous comment. I am pretty good with criticism and things only get better thru feedback.
@Noelle – I had a real hard time not using the orange that shows on the pages (about, audio, visual, etc.) instead of the green because I really like the color, but it can easily overwhelm. So, I went with the green because it was easier to take and sprinkled in the others in different spots. Of course, I feel like the blue combo is the best and I’m sure you do too!
Maybe I will trim it back to just those two colors again. All these colors can just be the Easter theme…
JFCC
Sat :: 15 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 10.58 am
Actually, I don’t think it’s the colors so much as the design. The bare text menu on the left side (in blue font), the huge blue bar in the middle, and then the main content on the right side…put it this way. My first thought upon seeing the new design was that Firefox was rendering it wrong, and I switched to IE to see if it looked better there.
I really liked the last look you had–the green Matrix-y thing.
I think the main thing that throws me off is having the blog content on the right side, rather than having it centered or on the left like most sites. It’s counter-intuitive to where my eyes are drawn.
Oh, and the koala thing is from Sealab 2021 (“Stimutacs”).
Sean
Sun :: 16 :: Apr :: 2006 :: 10.15 pm
Yes, it was a conscious decision to break from the norm with a different kind of three column layout and I was wondering how it would play. The layout I was working on before was more traditional with thin columns on either side of a middle content column. Maybe I will slap some of this stuff into that layout and see if it works better. Thanks for the additional feedback.
Firefox always renders correctly…it’s IE that sux. 😛