look into my eyes..

..my WordPress ‘eyes’, that is. I uploaded some new free smilies (emoticons) to my free smilies page yesterday, which are of course totally awesome and completely free (although charging 50 pence ($1) per smiley is a tempting idea I don’t think it’d work out). They’re named the same as the normal WP ones so can just be uploaded over the top of ’em. Sneak preview (they are transparent, they’re just on white so you can see them properly):

:D :? 8) :'( 8O >:| :lol: :x :mrgreen: :| :p :oops: :roll: :( :) :o >:D ;)
Download: [eyes]

I’ve also been updating my Harvest Moon (AWL) price list as I’ve been playing it this week. The new Harvest Moon game release date has been set back though! :(

I’m looking to release BellaBuffs next week, so if you’ve been testing it for me, please get any bugs or comments/suggestions in to me ASAP. I don’t want to have to patch it a day after releasing it. I have made some updates to it though, because I’m just so awesome. Aiming for a release date of Aug 4th.

IMPORTANT EDIT: I just found a blog entry posted two days ago about a critical flaw in WordPress. Any of you guys using it might want to check it out.

OTHER IMPORTANT EDIT: A new layout. How awesome is this, all black and pink and spooky?! :D Let me know if you see any bugs (like black text on a black background). Don’t forget to hard refresh (CTRL + F5) if you see oddness.

38 comments so far

  1. Corinne said:
    On 28 Jul at 6:57 pm

    The smilies are cute. And I CAN’T wait for the release.

  2. Chelsea said:
    On 28 Jul at 8:27 pm

    Lovely work! : ) I will keep your work in mind when I’m adding smilies onto my blog (that is, if I ever do!)

  3. Jon said:
    On 28 Jul at 10:12 pm

    Haha! Those are awesome, Jem!

  4. Hannah said:
    On 28 Jul at 10:20 pm

    Those smilies are really cute. They make me smile. ;) And that’s interesting to know about the WordPress flaw. Good thing I don’t have user registration enabled.

  5. Meggan said:
    On 28 Jul at 11:23 pm

    Love the eye smilies! Gahhh… I’ve just enabled user registration within the last couple of weeks or so. *goes off to disable it*

  6. Julie said:
    On 29 Jul at 12:09 am

    Thanks about the WordPress flaw (well, thanks for reporting it), although I’m pretty sure I left it off. As for BellaBuffs, did I mention I hate when there is no comment field?

  7. Maggie said:
    On 29 Jul at 12:37 am

    I can’t wait for BellaBuffs to be released. I’m wanting to use it on a fanlisting I’ve just been approved for.

  8. Brigitte said:
    On 29 Jul at 1:02 pm

    You mean Harvest Moon for the DS? Last I heard the release was August 28th-ish. Of course it was April at some point >__< Need ... to pet ... cows!

  9. Belinda said:
    On 29 Jul at 1:44 pm

    Man and to think I just enabled it a few days ago. Thanks for the heads up though, I’ll be upgrading wordpress asap.

  10. Shaun said:
    On 29 Jul at 5:06 pm

    Oh wow Jem! This layout is great. Nice colors. :)

  11. Alys said:
    On 29 Jul at 5:20 pm

    Love it Jem, btw I’m testing some of my new layouts in IE, and when you click tio comment in IE the comments overlap the navigation bar, and the image and navigation gets shanted down. Great work though!

  12. Alys said:
    On 29 Jul at 5:21 pm

    That’s in your layout, not in mine. i really should have made that clear.

  13. Jem said:
    On 29 Jul at 5:21 pm

    @Alys: I’m aware of the IE bug – working on it now. *kicks piece of crap IE*

  14. Alys said:
    On 29 Jul at 5:24 pm

    *kicks piece of crap IE also* Damn IE never works

  15. Vera said:
    On 29 Jul at 5:42 pm

    Awesome layout I love it! I wish my new (I’m still woking on it) layout were as nice as this one. And as per usual I agree that IE is crap… or if it’s not FF just doesn’t handle stuff well… Good thing I’m not using WP, or have the registering enabled :P

  16. Ashley said:
    On 29 Jul at 7:12 pm

    This is a beautiful layout~

  17. Shannon said:
    On 29 Jul at 7:12 pm

    Nice new layout :D. But… Hmm… The ‘visited’ links are pretty dark, to me, at least.

  18. Stephanie said:
    On 29 Jul at 8:26 pm

    Awesome new layout. Great color scheme. ^^

  19. Julie said:
    On 29 Jul at 9:13 pm

    I second Shannon on the visited links. I can almost not read them.

  20. Jem said:
    On 29 Jul at 10:07 pm

    I’ll fix the visited links :) (I hadn’t noticed because my Firefox is ‘broken’ and hasn’t changed visited link colours for months!)

  21. Anne said:
    On 30 Jul at 12:49 am

    Spiffy layout! Great use of colors. :)

  22. Corinne said:
    On 30 Jul at 2:15 am

    Great new layout. I’m loving the colors.

  23. kachii said:
    On 30 Jul at 8:44 am

    Nice new layout, I like the darker colours, easier on the eyes. Though those pink blobs, I must say, remind me of one of my first webdesign attempts (aged 12) – I created a green and blue blobbed layout.

  24. Claire said:
    On 30 Jul at 11:39 am

    Wow… I really do like the new design – one of you best in a long time, methinks! I’m usually not one for dark backgrounds, but this really works :)

  25. Ewa said:
    On 30 Jul at 1:41 pm

    Awsome design Jem!

  26. Gemma said:
    On 30 Jul at 1:47 pm

    The new layout is gorgeous and very stylish, though I wouldn’t mind higher contrast on some elements for easier reading. It’s certainly Gothic :)

  27. Tish said:
    On 30 Jul at 3:22 pm

    Wow, I love the smilies and the layout! Very dark, which I usually don’t like, but you’ve done it really well :D Thanks for pointing out the flaw, thankfully I already have that feature turned off.

  28. Stephanie said:
    On 30 Jul at 5:58 pm

    Very nifty. This color scheme has always been a favorite of mine. It looks good in Safari, by the way. The pink circles remind me of the olives on the kid’s menu from The Olive Garden ;P

  29. Vixx said:
    On 30 Jul at 7:35 pm

    Thanks for the head’s up on the WP security hole, Jem – am upgrading as I type. :) Loving the pink on black, btw! V xx

  30. Jim said:
    On 30 Jul at 8:24 pm

    Might be some type of injection with the wp-login.php file. I compared the latest to my own and can see where a hidden field was changed so it’s contents were sanitized.

  31. Mae said:
    On 31 Jul at 2:33 am

    love the new design! :) way better than the last one :D

  32. Elea said:
    On 31 Jul at 5:56 am

    Black and pink? Is my monitor weird or is it actually gray and pink? Either way, it’s an awesome layout. :)

  33. Bubs said:
    On 31 Jul at 10:06 am

    Great new layout! Love the colors ;)

  34. Adastra said:
    On 31 Jul at 11:20 am

    Very nice new layout, though I’m totally tired of black websites since two years. But yours’s got style ;)

  35. Anne said:
    On 31 Jul at 1:49 pm

    I love the new layout! Very classy-looking! Black with a one or two colors for accent is one of my weaknesses (though I’ve never made a site with it yet).

  36. Doug said:
    On 31 Jul at 2:15 pm

    I like the old layout better, though, :D. I don’t like darkness, it’s hard to read, but this layout ROCKS. I’m gonna come back as much as possible just to see this layout, :D

  37. Jordie said:
    On 31 Jul at 2:48 pm

    Super new layout… envy is gnawing at my mind. Pretty original concept too — never seen one like this before. I’ll be sure to pass on the message about open user registration in WordPress…, you gave me quite a scare there.

  38. Mandolin said:
    On 01 Aug at 6:10 am

    I love the new layout. Yay for spooky! You know, in the fashion world right now, dark and deeper colours are very in-season (but hopefully velvet will not make a return). And since art imitates life, I fully expect this incoming designing season to be full to the brim with rich and thick colours. ;-)