Nepherte (dot) be » theme http://www.nepherte.be About Nepherte, Mosiah and the person behind Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:45:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= New design in use http://www.nepherte.be/new-design-in-use/ http://www.nepherte.be/new-design-in-use/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:12:12 +0000 Nepherte http://www.nepherte.be/?p=305 As announced earlier, I launched the new look of Nepherte (dot) be today. I’m very pleased with the final result. I’d say it’s a vast improvement over the old design mainly because it’s wider and a lot more minimalistic (I’m a huge fan of minimalistic designs). The featured section is also a great way of putting the spotlight on specific articles. The theme in use is Equilibrium made by On. I slightly edited the layout of the front page to fit my needs but credit where credit’s due: On did a terrific job.

As always, I appreciate any input on the design: things that can be improved, a different layout, color scheme, … You name it. Just leave a message and I’ll consider the remarks, when possible.

]]> http://www.nepherte.be/new-design-in-use/feed/ 0 Ditching the old look of Nepherte.be http://www.nepherte.be/ditching-the-old-look-of-nepherte-dot-be/ http://www.nepherte.be/ditching-the-old-look-of-nepherte-dot-be/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:48:09 +0000 Nepherte http://www.nepherte.be/?p=296 I’ve been thinkering for a while now to change the design of the site. The current design, while visually very appealing, poses a couple of practical limitations. For one, it has a fixed width. A rather not so large width to be precisely. It doesn’t allow for long structured postings with many commands to show how some things are done in linux. Eventually, these long posts are doomed to occupy a great height of the site.

Another limitation is adding fixed pages. The top right menu contains only 3 horizontal items with a fixed graphically coded text, namely ‘Home’, ‘About’ and ‘Archives’. Though I could also code them in a right side menus such as ‘Recent Posts’ or ‘Categories’, they don’t belong there conceptually speaking. The coding itself is not a problem (I guess studying engineering in computer science finally pays off), it would also require creating some extra graphics, something I’m not very good at.

Therefore I decided to drop the current design, Notepad Chaos, and go with a new one. The search for a new theme can be very cumbersome like today. There are hundreds of site with free wordpress templates, most of them plain ugly. My demands and preferences don’t make it easier for me either. Fortunately I stumbled upon a site (Blog Perfume) with more qualitive themes, at least that’s what I think, where I found my new theme. It will take a little while before the new look is in use. I still have to make some changes in the php code to be sure the site looks exactly the way I want it to be. The next post will probably be in the new look. See you then.

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