Comments on: WordPress theme pondering

By: XIII

XIII — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:25:57 +0000

But enough with the off topic comments. ;)
*burps*
Back to enjoying a hangover.

By: SlugMan

SlugMan — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 07:13:55 +0000

well i wasn’t saying the content was anything to scream about, but he does have some interesting posts on web design for people like me (web design n00bz0rz!!!) :P I had been on a spree browsing quite a few websites reading design articles and looking at site design with wordpress, so that’s how i found his site.

lalala
http://x111.com/?p=238

By: XIII

XIII — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:05:15 +0000

Wake me when you post something I haven’t seen on a million other Mac user blogs before. So no ‘how to set up WordPress’ which is so incredibly simple that if you need a how to for that you should find another hobby (this site runs on a mac btw, so I’m not dissing Apple, just you). No silly list recommending Quicksilver, TextEdit & AdiumX because it’s all been done to death before as well.
So yeah, fanboy, because you don’t really have anything substantial to say about them other than the ‘I’m a big fan of Apple computers’ on the front page. Add the ‘Digg this’ for comedy value because it’s all been dugg all the way to the frontpage countless times before and you’re left with just another copycat site.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:10:53 +0000

What about my entry made me a fanboy?

By: XIII

XIII — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:25:28 +0000

Yup, that’s sorta what I had in mind, except I hope to make it look less boxed. As for that link… whoopee, another fanboy writing a newb entry about how to set up WordPress on a Mac with a link hoping he’ll get on Digg. Too damn lame, that’s more for the Paul Statiwhatever.com crowd.

By: SlugMan

SlugMan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:08:49 +0000

I think the best idea would be would be to design it for 1024 and say screw anyone that still uses anything lower (and maybe make it fluid for anything bigger?). Then I think the best way to layout all the information would be to stack it in a sorts of way. The primary content (blog and forum info?) probably should be the main focus and obviously stick out more. So I’d maybe have then side beside consuming most of the view in a double column view? Then start stacking other stuff beneath it in multi column format. Ok, that explanation may not be the best, but the thinking is coming from this guy – http://www.bleikamp.com/

By: XIII

XIII — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:17:22 +0000

Thanks, fixed. Hadn’t spotted that yet. And yeah, the cover thingie shows the most played albums according to last.fm, although it isn’t quite correct. For some reason several albums I know I’ve played a lot don’t show up there and the only reason Christina’s listed is because I’ve listened to ‘Hurt’ a couple of times. It does load faster now, the cache didn’t work correctly.

By: CommSie

CommSie — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:43:30 +0000

Interesting o_o You probably already know, but with the current theme the link to the forums is missing a “/”

For example:
http://x111.com/boredviewtopic.php?p=34630#34630
http://x111.com/bored/viewtopic.php?p=34630#34630

And love the CDs (album covers) of the moment.

By: XIII

XIII — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:31:44 +0000

1024×768 45%
1280×1024 30%
800×600 6%

By: CommSie

CommSie — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:20:02 +0000

Lots of people use less than 1024*768? D:

Lots to do and get, will be very interesting.

And that’s a lot of spam comments blocked D: