trajano
Item page design for www.trajano.net dkfga
This is the item page for my new blog design. I took design elements from digg, slashdot, orderedlist.com/, tango and mashed them up into this one.
Unlike my previous blog, there are no boxes with hard borders. There is a noticable difference in layout for the main page than the item pages as well. Primarily the location of the page elements which is at the bottom on the item page and on the right for the main page.
I will only use one font family throughout the page elements that I control. The order of it is: Segoe UI (Windows Vista font), Tahoma, sans-serif. Most of my readership is on windows (according to Google Analytics) and on Firefox, so I will adjust things to fit that platform/browser combination as well.
Like my previous blog, the fonts are all relatively sized and the content area will always fit the screen. I will still use standard HTML markup to handle
The colors I chose are "Pantone Coolgray 2 M" as the general tone, and "#003366" to match the blogger navigation. The colors were chosen so they would hopefully wash out more of the page elements so people can focus more on the content.
The template is organized to fit the usage of a lone blogger in the log (so I have removed all the things that may make it give the notion of multiple bloggers.
In the "Links to this post" I didn't bother with the "Create link" because that section is automatically populated according to
help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42533
As a filler, there is some adsense on the right side of the page. Probably going to make it a skyscraper to push the bottom navigation down. I don't make much money from it anyway, but every little bit helps.
The bottom navigation has its own search so the user does not need to go all the way up to perform a site search. It has the archive, and RSS feed of the recent posts in the blog and a list of popular tags on the blog.
Some changes in the final version are:
* The text layout is a bit off (i don't think I want it that tight or that small).
* the main area would be shifted a bit to the right.
* bullets will be added
* The gradients are too big
* the bottom part will be filled in.
* I may add another color to the palette
* I need to add a "post new comment" link
Item page design for www.trajano.net dkfga
This is the item page for my new blog design. I took design elements from digg, slashdot, orderedlist.com/, tango and mashed them up into this one.
Unlike my previous blog, there are no boxes with hard borders. There is a noticable difference in layout for the main page than the item pages as well. Primarily the location of the page elements which is at the bottom on the item page and on the right for the main page.
I will only use one font family throughout the page elements that I control. The order of it is: Segoe UI (Windows Vista font), Tahoma, sans-serif. Most of my readership is on windows (according to Google Analytics) and on Firefox, so I will adjust things to fit that platform/browser combination as well.
Like my previous blog, the fonts are all relatively sized and the content area will always fit the screen. I will still use standard HTML markup to handle
The colors I chose are "Pantone Coolgray 2 M" as the general tone, and "#003366" to match the blogger navigation. The colors were chosen so they would hopefully wash out more of the page elements so people can focus more on the content.
The template is organized to fit the usage of a lone blogger in the log (so I have removed all the things that may make it give the notion of multiple bloggers.
In the "Links to this post" I didn't bother with the "Create link" because that section is automatically populated according to
help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42533
As a filler, there is some adsense on the right side of the page. Probably going to make it a skyscraper to push the bottom navigation down. I don't make much money from it anyway, but every little bit helps.
The bottom navigation has its own search so the user does not need to go all the way up to perform a site search. It has the archive, and RSS feed of the recent posts in the blog and a list of popular tags on the blog.
Some changes in the final version are:
* The text layout is a bit off (i don't think I want it that tight or that small).
* the main area would be shifted a bit to the right.
* bullets will be added
* The gradients are too big
* the bottom part will be filled in.
* I may add another color to the palette
* I need to add a "post new comment" link