[rate 4]
New WP plugin. Maybe I can start rating movies and crap now.
I’ll be out tommorrow by the way. Party and fun stuff like that.
My goal for tonight is to wrap up the Cool-Teens contract. For those who are uninformed as to what the “cool-teens contract” is, I will tell you. The site originally found me through TeenDev (a fantastic resource for teens into web design), and over a period of the past 2 years I’ve done their graphic design (as of this post you can see my first design at coolteens.com). A few weeks ago, Marc (the newly reinstated admin of the site) approached me asking me to help in the redesign process of the site (so, in effect, I was redesigning my own design).
You can sample my new design at comitar/coolteens/. It’s designed to be significantly more contric (content-centric). I cut out the huge amounts of green I had before (background primarily) and especially got rid of the grunge (except for some tasteful grunge in the new logo). I also cut the weird green crescents. I don’t know why I put those there other than I had a ton of white space. Now that the site is contric, I have made it totally XHTML/CSS compliant. I think. As far as I can tell. I haven’t validated yet.
The site is wider by about 80 pixels (give or take) so that ads room for the new Flash rotating banner, a la AOL Music/Moviefone, the new Yahoo, or even the Comitar Shop.
Fonts are easier to read, (georgia and tahoma and verdana), colors are nicer, and its just an overall cleaner design. I have yet to incorporate the ad space (hehe, I can hardly wait), but I’m predicting it will be tricky to keep it above the fold and keep it all clean. CSS isn’t totally finished (headlines and links and such are yet to be made) but it is at the point where Cool-Teens can integrate it.
I give this design a [rate 5]!!!!!!!
Chris
[tags]cool-teens, graphic design, web design, teens, css, html, xhtml, blog plugin, wordpress, rating[/tags]