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Another New Layout

I know, I change layouts more often than I change my underwear, but seriously.. who didn’t find the blue incredibly bland? You didn’t? Oh, well, I did. I am still sticking with the lines and circles — lines under headers, blocky navigation, circles in the header etc — just making things a little more fruity in the colour department. By fruity I mean “a colour that I can’t stand but is livening things up”. Yehaw.

The green link hover colour is not stopping, and I’m making changes to each section (because it’s about time I updated parts of my site, really). There will be the results of a little study I did added to my Personal Website Adverts rant later on this week and I’m doing some pruning of out of date links/etc. Oh, and for the first time since.. well, a long time ago, I had to fight with IE to make things work properly! When you use percentage paddings it makes things jump about, and I couldn’t be arsed to work around it so I just made a special non-fluid IE layout.

Work is, at the moment, drying up my “blogspiration”. I come home so hot and tired that I can’t be bothered to make up crap to blabber on about. So, until I either become super woman or things change at work, you’ll have to put up with my layout/site related ramblings…

Edit (3rd July):

intentional overlapping

Jul 2nd, 06 @ 18:34 · Design, Rambling

 

38 comments on “Another New Layout”

  1. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 7:06 pm, Nanda wrote:

    The new layout rocks!

  2. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 7:23 pm, Elisabeth wrote:

    The layout looks a bit weird for me (in Firefox), the content box is a bit over the header. But maybe it chould look like that?

  3. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 7:34 pm, Jem wrote:

    It’s supposed to look like that.

  4. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 8:38 pm, Shaun wrote:

    Oh wow Jem, this is my favorite layout from you yet! Only you can make me not cringe at pink. ;)

  5. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 9:33 pm, Vixx wrote:

    I know how you feel about blogspiration. Lovely new look. Very you. :) V xx

  6. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 9:51 pm, Trinity wrote:

    Grey and pink - I definitely love it!

  7. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 9:57 pm, Sasha wrote:

    Pink and grey is always a winner combination, and the bright pink gives the site just that more spiffyness. Great choice. :) I also love the background pattern, the wider stripes suit the blocky navigation.

  8. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 11:07 pm, Mandolin wrote:

    Leave the green link hovers, it adds interest to the pink & gray. :-) As for blogspiration, it doesn’t have to be about daily life to be interesting. I find site and layout updates interesting, too… as do others, apparently, haha.

  9. #On July 2nd, 06 @ 11:43 pm, Claire wrote:

    Ah, you can keep the green hovers :) …pink and green works…doesn’t it? *glances worriedly over at her own blog*…Right?…

  10. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 1:31 am, Anne wrote:

    I liked the blue, but then again, my favorite color is blue. Since my second favorite color is probably pink, I like this one, too. :) Pink and the gray striped background (and that green!) look very professional, and the circles and body positioning give it a “fun” feel. Very nicely executed!

  11. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 2:21 am, Anne wrote:

    Your new layout is very pretty. I think you should keep the hover links as it spices up the whole thing. (:

  12. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 2:26 am, Frosty wrote:

    Love the new layout! Looks great in IE5/Mac, at least… but what is with the background for the title dropping into the sidebar in Safari and Camino? Is it supposed to do that? Anyways, yet another great layout, as usual. And the green hovers are shibby with the pink and gray, adds some uniqueness to the color scheme. :D

  13. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 4:23 am, Cheri wrote:

    I love this layout. The color scheme is so nice. It makes me happy just looking at it. As always, nice job on the design. You’re great. =)

  14. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 4:46 am, Emily wrote:

    I love it. Pink is my favourite colour after blue. I actually think you should keep the green hovers, I like them!

  15. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 7:55 am, Tish wrote:

    I’m loving the pink! And the green hover :P Reminds me of a watermelon. Damn. I’m hungry just thinking about it! Very proffesional, as always.

  16. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 8:52 am, Becky wrote:

    You change your underwear once a month or so and you *still* have a boyfriend!? Someone wanna explain to me exactly what I’m doing wrong? This layout reminds me of flakies. I like flakies, they’re really good. But only the raspberry ones, everything else is pretty much just gross. I feel like a flakie right now…

  17. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 8:57 am, Chans wrote:

    Your layout jumps off my screen, but in a good way. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone use pink in sudge a way, usually it’s very annoying. Great work.

  18. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 8:58 am, Chans wrote:

    Isn’t it obvious that it’s early for me; I can’t even spell Such right! *blush*

  19. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 11:02 am, Sonya wrote:

    Finally a layout I can appreciate! Loving the pink.

  20. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 1:25 pm, Daniela wrote:

    Wooooow, this layout is so great Jem! I love it;-) By the way, I might suggest some tutorial about how to create those rollover buttons in order to work in all browsers…

  21. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 1:49 pm, Munin wrote:

    Wow, another new layout. ._o I know how you feel. =( Minus the work (because I don’t work, sadly). You’ll get back on track eventually.

  22. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 2:07 pm, Jem wrote:

    @Daniela - my tutorial on tutorialtastic *should* be cross-browser compatible :) You can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/gz5ke

  23. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 3:43 pm, Daniela wrote:

    Thanks:) I did not know there was already a tutorial on that;-)

  24. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 7:53 pm, Amber wrote:

    I love this one. I wasn’t overly keen on the blue before, because it was a little too plain (says the simplicity lover). And I love the green hovers too because green and pink works great, yes?

  25. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 7:56 pm, Shannon wrote:

    Hmm… though, I think that the light pink border around the buttons of narigation make the buttons themself seem… blurry in the edges. I don’t know about that. The otherwise, I love it.

  26. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 8:25 pm, Shannon wrote:

    Oh, I meant ‘navigation.’ Stupid typo.

  27. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 8:43 pm, Viitoria wrote:

    Ah, pink. And gray.

  28. #On July 3rd, 06 @ 8:45 pm, Viitoria wrote:

    My comment got cut off. I suppose that shows that I should use < symbols thoughtlessly, even if it is just to make the L33t <3 I like the slight change from your usual navigation (top bar, etc.) and the upwards content area. I’m not sure if I like the actual banner itself, though. Something about it just bothers me. Green hover links for this combination is definitely interesting - they actually seem to fit against the white. The darker green of the navigation I don’t like as much. And I could just huggle your background stripes to death. Mwah.

  29. #On July 4th, 06 @ 10:52 am, Jordie wrote:

    Pink is such a nice colour for Web design!

  30. #On July 4th, 06 @ 1:46 pm, Claire wrote:

    LMAO @ your edit… *I* knew it was intentional :P

  31. #On July 4th, 06 @ 4:43 pm, Belinda wrote:

    GIRLY BUBBLES! Very cute, I like!

  32. #On July 4th, 06 @ 6:46 pm, Hannah wrote:

    I really like the layout, it’s very simple yet cute and feminine. Plus it’s pink, and pink is my favorite color. ;) You always have nice layouts.

  33. #On July 4th, 06 @ 7:31 pm, Alys wrote:

    Pretty In Pink :). It’s bubble-tastic Jem!

  34. #On July 4th, 06 @ 9:59 pm, Carina wrote:

    I really like this layout, it’s one of my favorites from you. It’s very ‘together’. I didn’t really like your previous layout(s), I’m not as into desaturated colors as I used to be.

  35. #On July 4th, 06 @ 11:24 pm, Elisabeth wrote:

    Oh well I guess I’m te stupid one now, but oh wait, I think I always was.

  36. #On July 5th, 06 @ 12:58 pm, Alys wrote:

    Just a quick bug I’ve found! I’m at school at the moment, and so I’m using a 800×600 screen and IE (neither by preference). On your free bellabook themes page, the navigation gets pushed below the content, meaning you have to scroll down for it. :)

  37. #On July 7th, 06 @ 4:43 pm, Montoya wrote:

    The nerd in me comes out: you misspelled “Yeehaw.”

  38. #On July 7th, 06 @ 5:38 pm, Sara wrote:

    I love your layouts and this pink one is hot! :)

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