Comments on: teddY-risatioN™ Zeta Released!

By: ingSiang

ingSiang — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:30:13 +0000

AMAZING THEME! I want an open source copy!~ =D =D

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By: teddY

teddY — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:50:36 +0000

Thanks Adrian! Lol you’re so kind… see you at Plurk later

By: AdrianC

AdrianC — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:01:38 +0000

NICE theme! i like the smoothness, the shape, the color. good design altogether!

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By: teddY

teddY — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:52:48 +0000

@Id
Thank you heheh. I think it’s one of my favourite as well because I can finally make good use of alpha transparency in PNG for my theme. In the past I dared not even have the idea of doing so out of fear that IE6 visitors will see a broken page. But after stumbling upon a lightweight behavoir fix for IE5.5 and IE6, alpha transparency is no longer holding me back.

As for the tagline, I initially wanted it to just me, ‘Minimalist design, less is better’. But I realise by using ‘maximalist’ in the tagline will create this interesting irony in it

@jason
Actually I’m not very sure myself about whether this theme can be counted as minimalistic too! But I guess with less glaring visual elements and having soft transitions of colour throughout the page makes this theme more minimalistic than my previous ones.

Initially I wanted to frame the sidebar because I thought that having a sidebar that blends seamlessly into the background will make it lose structure and visual attention from readers. But after looking at a handful of professional design layouts, frameless sidebar will definitely be the best way to go for a minimalist design.

In fact this theme comes with a whooping 182kb of graphic! But for the front page, less than two-thirds of the graphic is loaded, which is around 100kb (which is quite managable). Althought it’s two times heavier than the truly minimalistic teddY-risatioN Epsilon, it’s still small as compared to the 320+kb monster of teddY-risatioN Delta!

@abdusfauzi
Thank you! Actually what made the theme look seamless is because only the content is segragated from the background. For the header, sidebar and footer, they blend smoothly into the blue background, thus creating less contrast and a smoother feeling.

@thecoffeesnob
Thanks! Actually what I really needed is a basic Wordpress theme to work on. Being a complete PHP idiot, I could not build a Wordpress theme fron ground up, and thus have to find a ’sandbox’ theme to work on. I’ve settled for the Sandbox Theme from Plaintxt.org because of it’s rich semantic markup and almost no styling.

What I really did was just using simple Photoshop skills to create gradiented backgrounds, and work my way up using CSS styling.

@Yunia
Hey there, welcome back from your long hiatus! I’m glad to see you back in action for the colour scheme, I stuck to my favourite blue. The logo is actually an asterisk, but I’ve modified it a little to make it look more like a logo rather than plain text, heheh. May you have an amazing weekend too!

p/s: I hope you get your pool renovation is going well! When it’s done, have a splashing good time in the warm summer!

@NoktahHitam
Thanks! Have a safe trip… and good luck for your blog’s redesign!

@Aisyah
I think this theme is better too! I’ve avoided making the header too big in other pages because it’ll discourage visitors from browsing, since huge headers can be potentially irritating.

By: Aisyah

Aisyah — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:21:27 +0000

I love this new theme better than the previous one. it looks greatm teddy! neat, as always. I especially love the way you put together the contents on the header. and i see that they are not here on entry page. good.

all in all, it’s an awesome theme. (is there any word to describe something that’s better than awesome? I cant think of any right now. lol)

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By: NoktahHitam

NoktahHitam — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:37:23 +0000

Superb! Cant say much. I heading south now. See yah

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By: Yunia

Yunia — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:03:56 +0000

Hey Teddy I love your new wordpress theme. I like how it is easy to read, clear navigation and I like the colors you used. The small simple logo you used makes your theme look very sophisticated. Overall I am impressed. Great job teddY Have a great weekend!!!

By: thecoffeesnob

thecoffeesnob — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:37:06 +0000

This looks fantastic, Teddy, although how you work your magic on this stuff is still totally mind boggling to me
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By: abdusfauzi

abdusfauzi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:12:08 +0000

nice! i hope i can create a theme like you did.. nice and smooth..

By: jason

jason — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:51:02 +0000

yup. i’d love this theme much much more. it looks minimalistic, but the soft touches of gradient-ed background and sidebar looks awesome. i can see there was a lot of effort in thinking up how to make it artistically tasteful, but yet minimalistic. very pleasing to eye too. it’s nice to see that to fit the theme, the sidebar, footer, header went minimalistic too.

but if i got my definition of minimalistic wrong, then this would still be a great compromise between minimalistic and a bit of design.

i don’t think the page loads on much right? which is also a great thing.

big big thumbs up from me.

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