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The Moneyizor Network Magazine just launched, with design from yours truly. It’s based on the previous network magazine designs (Allusionz, LifeTimes and 21st-Century Phi) that I made for Syntagma way back. John wanted Moneyizor green since it’s all about money and things like that, and who am I to argue when he comes running with his wad of notes?! Also, I like green.
Pretty sober design, as it should be when money’s involved if you ask me. Check out Moneyizor and read John’s launch post over at the Syntagma blog.
Disclosure: I’m involved in business with The Blog Herald owners, Splashpress Media, and also blog at 901am, another Splashpress site.
The redesign of The Blog Herald, where I blogged when it was maintained by Matt Craven, is long overdue. The concept change when the Herald was bought by Splashpress didn’t fit the old layout (by Chris Pearson by the way). Honestly, I think The Blog Herald should’ve gotten some design love under Matt Craven as well, but then again I’m a bit picky when it comes to these things. Go figure.
Brian Gardner is the guy behind a bunch of free themes, as well as a few for Performancing. It looks like this nowadays:
My buddy Tony Hung, editor of The Blog Herald, have got a launch post up. Check it out, and click around a bit. What do you think?
I think they went the right way with focusing on the features to the left, with news in the middle column a little way down. That’s logical since it’s all about the meaty post over at The Blog Herald these days, the road they chose to tread so to speak. The basic layout decisions is OK, but I’m having some problems with this design.
- The footer is bland and unbalanced when it comes to spacing on the top/bottom. It needs a little action and graphic love. Too clean, and that’s from me…
- I think there’s too little contrast between the columns. Spacing, changing the fonts and/or font sized, color alterations… They’re too close to each other in every aspect.
- There are some pixel issues with the menu/main content column.
- I’d like some vibrancy in the header. Going clean gray with a little red is alright, but something to give it a more three dimensial feel.
Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a step in the right direction for The Blog Herald and the type of content they’re doing these days! Brian did a nice job and I’m sure the site and design will improve during the coming days.
I never really left, it just got sold, redesigned and then redesigned again. My first posts will appear tomorrow if all goes well.
In other news, I’m going to try and relaunch this blog next week. It might not be possible, work comes first, but I’ll try to get it out in 2.0 beta. It will look like this, sort of.
That’s a first… Wordpress ate my post. I’m blaming the autosave feature. It’s all gone. I’m not rewriting it since it’s the most boring thing in the world… I will update Wordpress though.
Anyway, I have relaunched my Swedish blog in all haste. It’s located at tdh.se and runs a very early version of the TDH theme that I will use for TDH 2.0. The reason for this crazy launch is my recent sale of my Swedish sites, which of course merits a few blog posts.
Take a look and let me know what you think about the design. It’s very, very much beta and will probably not work in all browsers. My Swedish readers might want to bookmark it too.
Commercial sites, that is. I’m going to relaunch my blog in Swedish pretty soon but that’s it. So yeah, I’ve sold ‘em all, including Kong. I’m staying on for a while to make sure everything goes smoothly, then we’ll see. The new owners, Umit, will make something good of this I’m sure, otherwise I wouldn’t have sold the sites of course.
Ten years as a Swedish games journo. Granted, lately I’ve been more and more focused on the international blogging and new media scene, as well as working with design. I plan on to further delve into these things.
But as I said, I’m staying on for quite some time.
I just realized I haven’t seen the bottom of my feed reader (Google Reader is my choice by the way) for weeks. It just keeps piling up, and every now and then I just bulk mark categories as read.
No more, or at least that’s the plan. I just unsubscribed to 15 feeds. More will fall off unless they make me click soon.
RSS is great, it really is. Unfortunately you can end up getting way too much information. Overload isn’t a good thing if it stops you from actually using the information flow. In other words, reading feeds all day won’t make me more productive.
My brother runs ProToolerBlog, a blog covering pro audio. He’s into that stuff, and whenever I see all the gear that ends up in his mailbox, so am I.
Anyway, I helped him out with a redesign. He wanted it blue. He got blue.
Head over to ProToolerBlog and have a look.
I delivered two Wordpress themes today. Hopefully I’ll be able to link to the sites using them pretty soon. So yeah, client stuff. I’ve got a bunch of concepts spinning in my mind so hopefully I’ll be able to get going. This blog needs some love, you all know that of course, and I’m gonna finish up the two other projects that are on my table this week or the next. Well, not finish but at least push them out of my hands for a while. How’s that for being cryptic huh?
My crossgrade for Adobe Creative Suite arrived, got installed and works like a charm. I need my Photoshop, like most designers. And 901am got posts today as well. All in all I’m pretty much steaming along.
Feeling better just rocks. Almost back to my own self. I’m going to celebrate that with a sturdy single malt away from the computer.
Alex King, the famous Wordpress plugin developer extraordinaire, is interviewed over at Bloggertalks. I think Alex gave some great insights on plugin development, how the community handles it and so on. Oh, and he talks about Wordpress in general, Automattic and the Share Icon project as well.