EWD » CSS & design http://dev.evaria.com Trying to think outside the box Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:13:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en Evaria family of sites http://dev.evaria.com/53/ http://dev.evaria.com/53/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:04:52 +0000 Thomsen http://dev.evaria.com/?p=53 The old front-page

It’s been a few years since we last updated our “landing page”, evaria.com. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and finally decided to do something about it today. Not that the old front-page was that bad;

The redesign

However, stating redesign launched 2005 doesn’t sound to promising. Thus I’ve completely redesigned the front-page and included one of my favourite photographs along with automatized daily updates;

More specifically the content will update itself whenever something gets published at evaria.com. This is accomplished using a PHP script that automatically grabs the latest updates from my RSS feeds. This way new visitors will always find their way to the latest news and the page suddenly appears much more useful than the old static one (can’t believe I haven’t done this ages ago).

The photo mentioned above features my two sons sitting on the beach 17th May 2007 in Fuengirola, Spain. We had been celebrating the Norwegian national day and were taking a well deserved break. I feel the photo reflects harmony and tranquillity, which is one of the reasons I like it so much, besides the obvious.

I would really appreciate comments/feedback regarding the new front-page. Anything from a web designers point(s) of view to personal opinions.

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]]> http://dev.evaria.com/53/feed/ New WordPress Theme http://dev.evaria.com/14/ http://dev.evaria.com/14/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:41:37 +0000 Thomsen http://dev.evaria.com/14/ Our development site has been redesigned again. We are now using the jQuery JavaScript Library to get the desired effects. That goes in particular to the various menus on the left and also the image slideshow(s).

The new theme has been named Tranquil Horizon, which is the feeling we get looking at the photo below the main menu. If the interest is big enough we will consider releasing the source (that means you will have to comment on this post and let us know).

In the blog section we have also added the popular comics plugin that we initially created for Blogvaria (below header image to the right).

Instead of the normal widgets in the sidebar we have hard-coded it in order to get it working/looking exactly like we want. We’ve also made great efforts to keep all the code 100% standards compliant. CSS provides complete control of layout and design, which makes future changes a breeze.

The only thing we are still working on is the logo. We are 93% happy with our current one and are still brainstorming for new ideas. We are also more than happy to receive suggestions… [submit here]

Please let us know if you encounter any bugs or abnormalities, as we are eager to fix and expand in the following days.

MT

Thomas

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