Phil Sturgeon

Web developer, kayaker, outdoors madman and part-time alcoholic.


When this developer designs

Posted at Nov 18, 2009

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.

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  • Gravatar Luca

    Nov 18, 2009

    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

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