Comments on: New Ghacks Theme up

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:34:15 +0000

No sorry I prefer the old one, it was easier to read with the black.

By: Kevyn

Kevyn — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:40:16 +0000

I like the new theme – it does seem faster, but I would like to see bounding boxes on each news item…there just seems to be a lot of white space there IMO.

Actually… boxes like the ones on these messages would be ideal!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:04:24 +0000

Cristian thanks for mentioning this. Will be fixed in the coming days ;)

By: Christian Kirchhoff

Christian Kirchhoff — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:47:58 +0000

Just some short test results:

- In IE6 the div#right jumps down
- In IE6 and IE7 the bottom border of the links in the div.wp-pagenavi is not visible

Just to let you know…

The theme looks cool though. ;)

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:08:49 +0000

Hello Martin,
I liked a lot the previous design.
I know that one can feel tired of constantly viewing the same colors during X years, but I liked the other design.

This one feels a little ‘cold’ to me.
It’s like a generic blog obtained with a web-creator-assistant.

Just my oppinion

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:47:50 +0000

Not bad ;) It will take some time for me to get used to it though.

By: Syahid A.

Syahid A. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:56:26 +0000

Nice change Martin. Loading a little bit faster imo.

By: yash

yash — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:23:13 +0000

the logo does not fit in well. another complaint is that readers need to scroll down to see affiliated site (connected internet etc) . otherwise its really nice

By: nimicitor

nimicitor — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:22:07 +0000

Don’t forget to change the favicon!!!

By: Wa_Hi

Wa_Hi — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:17:44 +0000

very nice guys the color scheme is great.

By: Joel Thomas

Joel Thomas — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:12:20 +0000

I love the color combination. Looks awesome. keep the contents coming, I love them.

By: Fedorov

Fedorov — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:02:08 +0000

Nice colors and very clean looking, I like it! :)

By: rruben

rruben — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:49:14 +0000

Indeed he just posted in the same minute.

Unfortunately I just bought another theme around a month ago, so I am a little to late for this. From revolutiontheme, but I have changed it so much that you can hardly see any similarities.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:41:22 +0000

Rruben I did not create the theme, just ordered it. Look above your comment to find out who designed it. Can definitely recommend Roger from Zinruss Studio. Fast work, not expensive and great communication.

By: rruben

rruben — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:26:56 +0000

achzoo you like designing more then writing! That explains a lot.

You made me pretty curious about how you made that logo? In photoshop or with a 3D program?
Because it looks to 3D-ish for photoshop, very well done. Of course it can be done in photoshop with a round mask on it or something like that, aber ich bin noch neugierig :-P .

@darkkosmos
I thing that it is also the meaning that it means nothing. Then your only association you can make is Ghacks itself. Now that is called branding!

By: Zinruss Studio

Zinruss Studio — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:26:02 +0000

Most of your readers love the new skin and to be honest, i’m happy with the result. I believe the loading time is good ( files are less than 76kb, including screenshot of theme and all graphics used ). All the best and please let me know if you need further revision. I’m looking forward to have a long term business relationship with you.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:47:27 +0000

Thanks rruben. I like the new color scheme and design a lot and was getting just a bit bored with the old theme. I probably will release this theme for free as well once I tweaked it here at Ghacks. And don’t worry, this theme will be there for.. well .. at least a year :P

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:43:58 +0000

Fixed the pagenavi error. I was also thinking that the search part of the header was a bit misplaced there but it’s a unique position I think. I might consider moving it to the sidebar instead so that it would free up some header space.

By: rruben

rruben — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:43:05 +0000

I really like it. Its a very nice design. Perfect the orange with gray. Very professional looking.

My only objection is that you change your design to much.
The color of your identity has always been blue. Now it becomes orange.

And also when you changed your design the previous time it was definitely an improvement, but I really had to get used to it and that had cost time and unconscious I came less frequent in that period.

Switching to much with design and logo probably cause confusion with the not regular visitors.

But because your logo is definitely a cool, handsome big improvement :-P I should take the new design and just tweak it further like you are probably doing now. And then leave it that way as long as possible.

EDIT: Oya one thing to ad. In the previous design I used your sidebar with the “latest articles” much. But now it is more moved down I will probably use it a lot less. It think that the pageviews increase if you leave it more above.

By: Abd

Abd — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:09:36 +0000

To be honest, I don’t like it. The headings and tabs are too big and the colors, black and orange, don’t fit. The upper area should be smaller.