Comments on: Redesigned — something completely different

By: Neipselep

Neipselep — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:20:19 +0000

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By: dean.j.robinson

dean.j.robinson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:36:28 +0000

Did you do the Uni of Newcastle website? If so, I must congratulate you — it’s a beautiful site.

I’m just one member of the Uni’s web team, my input was mainly through the css and javascripts, the majority of the actual design was done by our designers. I merely translate their designs into css, which can be both very rewarding and frustrating, often at the same time which is why I enjoy it ;)

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:39:33 +0000

Did you do the Uni of Newcastle website? If so, I must congratulate you — it’s a beautiful site.

Also, this one is great too.

By: bancuri

bancuri — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:06:03 +0000

i like it very much

By: One Winged Angel

One Winged Angel — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:05:19 +0000

Grungy is the new trend! :D

By: Jeff Byrnes

Jeff Byrnes — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:04:16 +0000

Great new look! Really nice & clean, very cool change of pace.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:50:10 +0000

This is like tidy grunge :) I really like it. With my previous design I was only displaying one post on the front page and I noticed the same thing you did, fewer comments. You are very good at designing! Really, you’ve got great taletnt.

By: KaiToU

KaiToU — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:18:48 +0000

wow.. very cool, sir…!! >_<
i like it very much :D

btw, how about your old redoable? :P

By: dean.j.robinson

dean.j.robinson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:16:16 +0000

I also noticed that you’ve completely done away with sidenotes/asides.

Nope they are still there they are just inline with everything else now. If you scroll right to the bottom on the homepage you'll see a couple of them with their special style applied.

So does this design/theme have a name yet?

"Internally", ie the folder I put it in, I've called it 'Zipper', I have no idea why or where I pulled that from, I just needed a name of some sort.

By: Luke Hoersten

Luke Hoersten — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:04:13 +0000

Great look! The “grunge” design hasn’t been around for a while with all this web2.0 stuff but you pulled it off real well.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:00:40 +0000

The redesign looks great! I love the light colors.

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:26:48 +0000

Cool! had started associating you with dark themes so this is a nice change. I also noticed that you’ve completely done away with sidenotes/asides.

So does this design/theme have a name yet?

By: Camiel

Camiel — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:25:58 +0000

Realy like the design Dean!

Got a few questions:

–Are you working with custom fields to link to the project pictures in the sidebar? For instance the Hahlo picture?
–Will you be putting “pipedream” online for download?
–The reviews thing, is that a custom build plugin? Realy cool!

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:51:03 +0000

Another great looking web site. How do you keep coming out with these Dean?

By: dean.j.robinson

dean.j.robinson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:44:49 +0000

Are you working with custom fields to link to the project pictures in the sidebar? For instance the Hahlo picture?

Yes I am, I’m also using a custom field for the extract that appears in the sidebar and on the projects page, because pages in general don’t have extracts like posts. A number of other thing such as the download boxes on singles posts/page are also set using custom fields.

Will you be putting “pipedream” online for download?

Yes, I’m still planning on releasing a public version of PipeDream, but it needs a lot of work to get it to the point where the average user can just drop the theme in, activate it and then sit back

The reviews thing, is that a custom build plugin? Realy cool!

Its a customised version of a plugin called “WP Movie Ratings” (http://paulgoscicki.com/projects/wp-movie-ratings/). The main change I’ve made is modify it so that when I also add TV Show ratings I can categorise them. Its a pretty powerful plugin straight out of the box.