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[mali]

I like it

"The voice of the Community" should be in there, too IMO

 

[mazza558]

Gruso, look great! As mali said, if you could fit "the voice of the community" in there somewhere (bottom right?), that'd be great.

 

[gruso]

Stand by!

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If anyone's interested, the "voice of..." font is a freebie called Neuropol X.

 

[mali]

PERFECT

 

[mazza558]

It's on the blog now.

 

[TaG]

Nice one Gruso - that looks good.

 

[plopperz]

Wow, the site looks perfect now. Don't change a thing

 

[gruso]

Unanimous is good. Nice to contribute something on top of my two news items. :lol:

 

[benjiro]

Wow, the site looks perfect now. Don't change a thing

My designer germs are itching again

There is room for some improvement... There is a large amount off space lost between the post text and the the next post ( aka, the 2 lines ( "comments", "posted in xxx" are taking +- 10 a 12 lines in )).

Comments can be combined in one line with the "posted in xxx" for the next. And the none used lines to be removed. Result: 2 lines used. More compact, and more info.

Also, the top banner is taking in to much space. The focus off every news site ( or blog ) is the content. Even with a 1920*1200 screen resolution, at best you can only see 1 news item / blog.

Imho its better to combine the "The Unofficial OpenPandora Blog" text, with the image below it ( the one posted here ). Saves another 15%.

 

[TaG]

mazza558 has tried to find the best theme available. He has said that to modify the theme in order to make it just what you want requires buying a CSS add-on for wordpress

 

[mazza558]

As TaG says, there's no theme available which fulfils all the things we want.

 

[joa]

this blog is excellent.

 

[WizardStan]

Try to please everyone, and you will please no one.

 

[fusion_power]

Stand by!

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If anyone's interested, the "voice of..." font is a freebie called Neuropol X.


this "voice of..." is a great idea, it remembers me a little bit onto this:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...=20051105161957

maybe the pandora blog logo could have some graphical visualisation of the phrase?

 

[Chock]

This new header is definitely very nice !

The only minor thing I can see is that with this header + the upper header that says "The unofficial pandora blog", it takes 50% of the page on a 1024x768 laptop screen. When you add the firefox headers, that's more than 50% of the whole screen before you can see the 1st post on the blog. On a pandora screen 800x640 that will be even a bigger percentage.

Just my 2 cents...


Edit: I missed Benjiro post which basically was saying the same thing. As he mentioned merging the 2 headers would save some space.

Chock

 

[gruso]

Try to please everyone, and you will please no one.

Indeed. One commenter on the blog says that they're turning their back on it now, and going back to forum searching. BECAUSE OF THE THEME. :huh:

There's a Chad in every crowd.

 

[mazza558]

I have to say, I am considering changing the theme again, as the header image is huge - on the Pandora, all you'd see is the header image (taking into account space taken up by the OS + browser).

 

[Phawx]

Really guys. Well done. I really like the header as it is. I feel like this "unofficial" blog is "secretly sanctioned" by the higher ups.

Kind of like ThreeSpeech for the PS3...only this blog is awesome.

Yea..Like ThreeSpeech, only better.

PS. I like the header. I just generally like the layout.

 

[Hotcooler]

Ok, I pretty much found most of the annoying bugs (exept tags in posts and links are not translating) it's time to test it.

Please go here: http://openpandora.info/

and swich languages (flags on the right) see if it's good enough, and what about the speed.

So please test it I need some feedback before it goes kinda live

 

[gruso]

^ I got a 404, start there.

Re: theme changes (to the wordpress blog), I agree that it's best to leave things for now. A few people aren't happy, but there will always be a few unhappy peeps. I don't really understand how it's taking up half the screen for people running higher resolutions (someone said 1680x1050). I'm running 1280x1024 on this PC, here's a screenshot:



...I get the feeling people are running out of real estate because they're running 15 different toolbars in their browser.

For later on (say, when we have actual Pandora screens to allow for), I'm currently toying with this: http://gruseaux.wordpress.com/ (just using the blog as a scratchpad, not starting another one!)

Fixed width, custom header, nice and minimal. Something to keep on the backburner anyway, I think there have been enough changes for now.

[edit] Actually, it would be kinda cool to "launch" a new look blog to celebrate the first Pandora shipment.