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.
November 11th, 2006 at 2:55 am
halow
November 10th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
Very nice theme.
Is there a chance you’ll ever release it to the public?
November 10th, 2006 at 2:54 am
Now that’s art. Like it so much i post a link to my site. Out standing!!!
November 8th, 2006 at 8:25 pm
The best (blog) design I’ve seen. Very inspiring.
PS. the submit button is a bit plain though
November 7th, 2006 at 10:45 am
one of the best i have ever seen……
November 6th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Bravo pour votre site!! il est “Génialissime”, design parfait, choix des couleurs magiques!!!
Vous pouvez être fier de vous!! mais surtout Continuez !
à bientôt
October 30th, 2006 at 5:32 am
your design is awesome! no comments about it
especially the header. best design seen so far. GREAT!!!!!
October 24th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
One of the best designes I’ve ever seen… but I am impressed by all your work. Your tutorials were very helpful for me.
//Slovakia
October 22nd, 2006 at 3:40 am
i’ve learned a lot from your illustrator tutorials. thanks for everything. hope you could add me tutorials. by the way, love your pheonix theme, awesome.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:59 am
I was really impressed when I saw v3. The mechanics and the design flow very well together. This redesign has completely blown that out of the water. It’s magnificantly built and designed. I love it! Keep up the awesome work!