When this developer designs
For far too long this blog felt tainted. It's quality diminished by using a free design from Free CSS Templates. Well no more, I have finally had a crack at designing and after a few horrendous iterations I have something that I am happy with.
It may not be a graphical masterpiece, nor will I be winning any awards for it, but it is mine and that is good enough for me.
Oh and its HTML 5 too so it looks disgusting in IE6. Let's consider that to be a win!
Font and text sizes are not perfect so they will be worked on, and I had some plans to implement @font-face on the header. This will all be done soon, but for now it is back to working on PyroCMS v0.9.8 as its already a few days past due.
For any of you nerdy developer types with the design skills of a drunk beaver, take a look at When developers design. It is an old article but has some great advice for those of us more used to an IDE than Photoshop.
Comments
Luca
2009-11-18
I gave up designing long time ago. Long live the templates... btw, for WP I think this is a bargain: http://www.elegantthemes.com/
ciao
Luca