N.Design Phoenix Finally Launched
September 16th, 2006 Filed in: WordPress, News & Updates Jump to commentsAfter two months of hard work and learning, N.Design Phoenix theme is finally live! N.Design Studio is now powered by WordPress as a blogging and content management tool (CMS). This new design is much better in term of layout and coding. It is actually the fifth version of N.Design Studio. Since WordPress uses theme, so I’m calling this theme N.Design Phoenix instead of version five. Here I will tell you what are the differences in this theme and the older version.
Coding
This template is coded with validated semantic XHTML (proper use of H1, H2, UL, LI, etc) and CSS. It is much more accessible compare to the previous version. It has been tested on several major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari), so it should work in all browsers. Beside of the screen stylesheet, I also designed a printer friendly CSS stylesheet that will exclude all unnecessary stuffs to save your ink and paper. It will only print the main content and exclude the navigation, sidebar, footer, ads, etc.
Design
This is the first time I used so many different colors on a template. The background and navigation buttons are designed in various colors on purpose since this is a phoenix theme. I tried to keep the reading area white and plain so the background image stands out. Black on white text also makes reading more comfortable. The font size is bigger than the older version because I realize a lot of my visitors have high resolution monitors (based on the statistic information I collected). However, numbers of visitor are still using or setting display at 800 x 600, so I designed this template that still fit (without horizontal scrolling) on low resolution setting but best view with high resolution display.
Comment
Feel free to use the comment form below to post your thoughts or questions on my new design.
September 18th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
you need to use onfocus =”blur()”
when you click your top nav buttons you get that ugly dotted box across the whole screen in firefox
September 18th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
This Phoenix design is very pleasing to the eye!
September 18th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Woooaaaah !!! wonderful !
September 18th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
I love the Pheonix illustation at the top, it’s very nice and adds alot of flare to the site.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Love the design, yeah wordpress makes life so much more easier than Dreamweaver.
You site got 8.5 on Silktide Sitescore with testing of 5 pages, but when I tested it with 25 pages you got 8.8.
You need to get more people to vote for you site, then you can fidn out what they think. Here’s the URL for the test: http://www.silktide.com/report.php?url=http://www.ndesign-studio.com/
Peace
September 18th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Spectacular design! Love the illustration at the top and the overall contrasts of the site, great job!
September 18th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Thank you for all the comments. I'm very happy that the background turned out great. I spent almost a week on it.
September 18th, 2006 at 10:04 am
greattttttttttttttttttttttttttttt….. befor it beautiful but now it look moreeeeeee beautiful… great work
September 18th, 2006 at 6:32 am
Great work. Love the design.
September 18th, 2006 at 6:08 am
I am loving this design so much, the colors and everything are great and its nice to see you kept a few style things from previous versions. Only thing that stands out a bit weird, is the green buttons in the menu, the green seems off a bit or something, but besides that, great work!