Serverdome redesign - now with more nutrients and more rounded corners
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Finally, i got around to designing and coding a decent template for serverdome, as the last two designs were actually very, very bad looking. (I had several people commenting on the “mustard colored” blog). The template is far from over, as the plan is to release it as a free wordpress theme when i am done polishing and customizing it for public consumption. This version has some glaring oversights, (and probably some problems i haven’t noticed yet) like the lack of a functional footer and support for some plugins.
The curved corners are done through the use of the wonderful Nifty Corners Cube that you can use to get rounded corners on any html element using just javascript.
A big improvement over the last design is the customized look of the MyBlogLog widget. I always hated the default look of the widget and wanted to customize it but couldn’t bring myself to go through the mess that is the MBL code. This article on styling the MyBlogLog widget was a huge help in figuring out where every little piece of css goes.
All in all, I’m fairly happy with the look and feel of the new template compared to the old designs. I was considering using a free template and not have to worry about designing and coding a template from scratch but i prefer to do things by myself and knew i wouldn’t be happy until i had my own custom design.
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November 28th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Nice one m8. Instead for the Nifty Corners I recommend jQuery Corner Demo. Plus you’ll have a cool library to do other cool tricks on your theme
November 29th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Thanks for the tip John, ill take a look at Jqueried corners although it’s a pain to move from one javascrip lib to another at this point