Once again proving that I suffer from the uncontrollable urge to keep redesigning things – Feint.me now sports a new look. I went for travel inspired theme.
Built Using
The design was done in Photoshop – I eliminated the sketchpad completely for this redesign because its actually still based off the old look. It took 2 days to design – the hardest bit being the subtle shadows (it took me a while to get them right).
The blog is still using Thesis (1.7) – proving just how powerful a theme it really is.
Trying to Type Right
One of the hardest things in design is Typography. Although I haven’t perfected the art of type yet, I’m slowly getting better. I opted for a subtle shadow (thanks to CSS3) on the text. This gives the illusion the text is pressed into the page. Combined with an off black color, the readability looks good.
Hosted On
Mediatemple – The blog and database are hosted on the Mediatemple’s Grid. Unlike shared hosting, this will prevent the blog going down when it gets hit by Digg, Twitter, Hacker News etc. A pay a few dollars more than shared hosting but its worth it.
RackSpace Cloud Files - A CDN (content delivery network) is used to serve all the images in posts. My choice of CDN is Rackspace. This is really easy to do thanks to the CDN tool plugin. A still need to put the theme files on the CDN and once this is done the site should load in less than 3 seconds (this is probably overkill, but I like fiddling).
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Pretty spiffy, I like it!
I suck at design, but I still have to resist the urge to tweak my design too frequently. I use Thesis on one of my sites and Frugal on the other, and I think the general direction WP themes is going in is definitely more the direction of crazy powerful frameworks – which is pretty amazing since I think Thesis was the first “big” framework theme (there may have been others, not really sure), and that was only 2 years ago.
I really need to work on making my site load faster as well, CDN or otherwise. I am pretty sure my site loads embarassingly slow for a person who has done significant amounts of web development for a living
Your site isn’t that bad when it comes to loading speed. I still have lots of work to do on mine too to make it faster.
A = I?
wow, this is an amazing theme. It looks like an envelope with clean and bright design. How much do you pay for the CDN service? I am considering buying one but it is kind of expensive.
Thanks!
I use RackSpace Cloudfiles which is actually not expensive at all. For this blog, I probably pay a couple of dollars a month (in bandwidth). There are no additional costs.