“Less Is More” WordPress Theme
I’ve been busy working on a new design for toppa.com - this is a screenshot of it. My site is cluttered with a ton of links that really are more distraction than anything else. My design is inspired by the simple and clean open source “Cash” design. As you can see, I want to go even simpler (the CSS for Cash is also needlessly complicated, so I simplified that too). I’ve been using a lot more photographs in my posts over the past year, so I want to maximize the available width for pictures, but still be friendly to low-res monitors. Put all that together, and it means the sidebar has to go.
One part I still have to work on is rollover menus for the top navigation. The header area can be overlaid with a tag cloud, blogroll, etc. if someone wants to look at them. Otherwise, they’re neatly hidden away. After that I need to convert it into a WordPress theme, but I think that part will be easy.
Let me know what you think. If there’s any interest I’ll be happy to make a downloadable version - just leave me a comment.
[tags]open source web design, WordPress theme[/tags]
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August 22nd, 2007 at 9:50 pm
i read via bloglines so your CSS is meaningless to me.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 am
BTW the Left side google ads totally break you page with a small monitor width (I normally read you blog from Sage which has a sidebar), It shoves your entire main content below the ad.
I really like the new design. I need to refresh mine. I’ve mocked up 5 new designs and by the time I’m about ready to code I’m sick of the design already.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:39 am
Thanks for letting me know about the ad Pat. I’ve removed it. It was obnoxious anyway.