I think it’s best we consider this the hard launch launch for now. I’ve played around with one of the existing styles, the excellent kubrick, and have come up with something I quite like just now. Indeed if you’ve visited during the night you’ve probably seen the design in various stages of development. In future I’ll try to keep that from happening, there are a couple of ways I could achieve that but I won’t go into that here.
On the design, it’s a more refined version of previous purple designs I’ve gone for. The overall tone is much lighter, which is certainly a little more pleasing and easy on the eye. All feedback is welcome, and I’ll take comments into account when I come to do a full re-design.
As for the blog itself, I wouldn’t expect a huge amount of content until the end of the week, but I may get some time to post something I’ve been working on for a while. When university has finished for the year I should have time to post about things a little more often.
I’m liking the design.
I like the font, Verdana is it? It’s generally my font of choice.
The only criticism really is that personally I would have gone a shade or two darker on the background purple. You’ve probably tinkered around with different ones though, so for all I know that could be the best one. Anyway yeah, liking it very much.
Thanks. The font should actually be Calibri if I remember correctly, but I think Verdana was one of the backups so if your computer doesn’t have Calibri it’s probably showing as Verdana.
I quite liked the lighter purple, I think it’s a bit less intimidating than my older designs, but in the future I might try out a darker shade. For now I’m definitely liking the more subtle look though.
Thanks for the feedback though.