Finally I launched the new design for my blog as the last theme has been used for more than 8 months and I’ve got so fed up with it. If you’re a feed reader, please open my site with your favorite browser (except IE6 engine) to check out the new purple design.
The new design process lasts about 2 weeks, I spent the last two days in school with Photoshop, after came back home and installed the Archlinux, I was able to pick up the coding part with my favorite editor VIM. I find myself can barely do any coding things without VIM, just getting too used to it :P
My former designs for my blog are all multi-columns layout, so this time I decided to give a try on single-column style. And I deducted many plugins since I found the wordpress system was getting slower and slower. Even with my localhost server, the speed is really a pain in my ass, anyway, thank god that the wordpress developers eventually pay attention on the speed issue, now they’re working on it for the next release.
This design should works well with all modern browsers, except IE6, which is officially deprecated and abandoned by Microsoft, and there’s no point for me to waste much time on IE6’s debugging as this is just my personal blog.
There’s one part I havent touched on the new design, Javascript, I’m considering on the pros and cons of using jQuery framework. How much benefits it could bring if I choose to introduce the 40kb (compressed) js file into the new theme, definitely it should take some more important parts besides the animated effects.
Anyway, feel free to share your ideas and opinions on the new design. Enjoy it!