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 27th, 2006 at 3:13 am
i love the new site.
Please update the tutorials more
frequently.
September 26th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
I love the colors and layout of your site!! Congrats on a job well done.
September 26th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Sorry, I’m not releasing the Phoenix theme yet since it is an icon of N.Design. However, I’m planning to design some free WP themes.
September 26th, 2006 at 6:12 am
Hi,
can you maby release the theme for us?
Very nice design!
September 25th, 2006 at 3:21 am
Congratulations on your redesign. It just keeps getting better and better here.
September 24th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Wow. I’m amazed and humbled at the same time. Great site, keep up the good work. My students love your site.
-Greg Pipkin
Graphic Design Instructor
Eden Area ROP
www.earop.org
mrpipkin.wordpress.com
September 24th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Great site man!! i wish i can make this like you!
Where do you gets al the inspirations?
BTW. Love the background!!
September 24th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Wow. The design is really great! I’m not a fun of many colors on one site but that your combination looks awesome!
By the way, how you made you portfolio section? I wanted to do something like that but didn’t find a good solution. May be you’ll write some tutorial about that on point to existed one?
September 24th, 2006 at 12:03 am
well done! one of the better WP designs i’ve seen.
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Wow man, that’s amazing! You should be proud.