Well, anyone who visits reasonably often has probably already noticed that we redesigned again a couple of weeks ago. I’ve finally put aside my dislike of fixed-width designs, and used one. It’s based on the 960.gs implementation, turned into a simple Drupal theme.
The choice of fonts was aided a lot by a couple of articles:
- 8 Fonts You Probably Don’t Use in CSS, but Should
- Complete Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows
Putting these two together, we’ve picked fonts that should display well on all major platforms, and fail over to something reasonable on anything else.
We’re still experimenting a little with the ads. Just a little while ago, we replaced the big ad block in the top left with a random photo. We like the money they bring, but we don’t want to make the site unpleasant to read, either.
Hope you like it - if not, I hope it’s at least readable and not too objectionable.
Another week, another new look for PigPog.
This time, it’s a completely new theme I’ve built, so there’s even more chance that I’ve broken something. It’s all a bit basic, but it feels a bit more like it’s actually ours. I’ve put all the navigation stuff in a couple of reasonably narrow bars on the right, so the content is the first thing on a page.
It’s readable, and shouldn’t be too overloaded with ads, which were two of the problems with last week’s effort. Anyway, as ever, let me know what you think - even if you don’t like it. When it’s a theme built from scratch, it should be a bit easier to change.
Ever since upgrading to Drupal 5.x, we’ve just stuck with the default theme, with just a colour tweak to make it ours. I finally decided to take a bit of time to look at other themes, and found one I quite liked - it’s called Channel Nine (no relation that I’m aware of to the Microsoft thing). I’ve made a few very small changes to the theme, mainly to change the colours.
The idea of a theme without the standard ‘masthead’ top section was quite appealing, and this one seems to cope nicely with different screen widths, too.
As usual, I’ve tried to check things, but I might have broken something - please comment here if you spot something I’ve missed.