Jan 6

New design!

Now, the new theme is up. Please let me know what you think, good or bad? It’s definitely a step in a new direction, in my oppinion it’s the right direction. There’s still quite a bit of work i need to do to integrate the theme. If there are any bugs around the site, please let me know and i will get it fixed asap.

The design was done by my friend James David. He showed me the design last week, and i liked it so much i made him an offer. His new site will be oceansnorth.com, which is currently not online. But, if you want some work done by him - just get in touch with me and i’ll put you through. His prices are very reasonable.

The coding was done by kien from ndkien.com his coding is great, fast and very affordable. I highly reccommend him for coding any design.

On another note, i’m coming close to beating jon at this rss contest :) I’m at 178 rss, let’s hope this design bags some new subscribers :D

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30 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by Richard 6th January, 2008 at 9:24 pm

    Wow Josh!
    Much better than the previous design, looks really good. Love the personal feel to this design.
    Well done mate! This is a good start to 2008 :)

  2. Posted by Josh Buckley 6th January, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    Glad you like it richard :) Yep, it’s definitely a good start to the year. Nothing like a good redesign to start off the year.

  3. Posted by rick 6th January, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    this is one heck of a design, looks great =]

  4. Posted by Richard 6th January, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Just realised one bug. Your feedburner link leeds to Joshbuckley.net/feep

    Just a heads up

  5. Posted by Josh Buckley 6th January, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    Thanks for spotting the bug Richard, just fixed it.

    Glad you guys like it :)

  6. Posted by Andrew 6th January, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    The comment styling lets down the rest of the theme, but overall it’s not bad. Shame James gave it to you since he was going to hire me to code it.

  7. Posted by Andy 6th January, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    I like the new design, it’s pretty neat. Hopefully gain some extra readers ;)

    I agree with Andrew regarding the comments styling though.

  8. Posted by Josh Buckley 6th January, 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Yeah, i’ll see what i can do about the comment styling. It could definitely be improved a lot.

  9. Posted by Matt L 6th January, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    Consider putting another right hand column for those 125×125 ads. They are just kind of sitting there… doesn’t look to clean.

    Other than that - you have a great unique theme that definitely sets your blog apart from others’ in a good way.

  10. Posted by Andrew Yates 6th January, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Looks great, as I said in the comments section of your last post. Have to agree with Andrew and Andy about the comments section. As well as Matt about the adverts, they do seem to be a bit out of place right now.

  11. Posted by jon 6th January, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    rubbish.

  12. Posted by Andy 7th January, 2008 at 12:33 am

    Weird bug to report.. oddly, when viewing with Safari on OSX the paperclips don’t appear in the corner of the side boxes :P Hardly a problem, but thought you might like to know!

    This submit comment button is very snazzy.

  13. Posted by Simon North 7th January, 2008 at 2:00 am

    Hi, firstly nice site and well done on your successes. I like the design but have noticed that the link in the footer doesn’t point to this blog, it points to http://joshbuckley.com/, I dont know whether this was intentional or not but thought best to bring it to your attention. Anyway, well done and I wish you good success for 2008

  14. Posted by Jay 7th January, 2008 at 3:45 am

    Great looking redesign, easy on the eyes yet still visually appealing. Keep up the good work! :)

  15. Posted by James David 7th January, 2008 at 6:35 am

    looks great josh. i’ll be back in a week

  16. Posted by Josh Buckley 7th January, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    @jon fum!

    @Andy Thanks for reporting th ebug, i will try to get my coder on it shortly.

    @simon Thanks for reporting the problem, i think it is fixed now. It was a small accident by my coder

    Glad there was such a good response about the design :D

  17. Posted by Andy 7th January, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Odd, today I can see the paperclips! Unless it was fixed, perhaps it was an error on my end.

  18. Posted by Josh Buckley 7th January, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    That’s strange. I haven’t changed anything yet. Let me know if anything thanges, thanks andy!

  19. Posted by Rajab 7th January, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    The new theme looks cool, Josh!
    Keep it up

  20. Posted by Josh Buckley 7th January, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    Thanks for the kind comment Rajab!

  21. Posted by Matt 7th January, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    Like the new look of the blog josh, check out my latest project, http://www.teenzo.org

  22. Posted by Marcus 8th January, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Yeah… I just logged into Google Reader and saw that you made a post saying “I’m gayyyy” and tehn apparently deleted it. It is still available in Reader though.

    lol

  23. Posted by Marcus 8th January, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/joshbuckley/blog

    It’s still there dude - better find a way to clear it off RSS.

  24. Posted by Josh Buckley 8th January, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    yeah, sorry about that marcus. I shouldn’t stay logged in when i’m at school :/

  25. Posted by Marcus 8th January, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Yeah - not to safe.

    No need to apologize to me - it affects you not me.

    Best Regards

  26. Posted by Webmaster Forum 8th January, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    IT IS ROCKING

  27. Posted by Upstart Blogger 9th January, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Congratulations on the new design. Glad to see you managed to catch the idiots messing around and delete the offending post from the feed. Take no notice, they’re just jealous of your success.

  28. Posted by Community Building Blog 10th January, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Hey Josh

    I like the new design, however using FireFox I cannot see the dates on the left side of each post (1024×768 resolution).

    - Martin Reed

  29. Posted by Josh Buckley 11th January, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks for that Martin, i will get this checked out.

  30. Posted by One Winged Angel 22nd January, 2008 at 6:39 am

    Hi Josh. I like your new theme :) It’s just nice… Being such a good designer at young age, congratulations to you.

    Regards,
    One Winged Angel, Malaysia.

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