tech.gadgets.video.geekculture.gaming.kittens.
New blog design!
Hooray! As much as I once loved my old design, it was begging for an update. Huge thanks to my friend Jesse Keyes (contact him for WP template design here) who listened to my whims, and put up with my incessant nitpicking. This design is much easier to read and navigate, and the code isn’t fraked from my constant adding and subtracting of widgets. Yes, it had become so bad that even trying to add an embedded video would cause the whole site to spiral into disaster. I’ll be more careful this time.
And to those of you who visit this site mid-transition, I’m sorry if you thought you were caught in some weird temporal vortex (the templates were switching around back and forth). There will be more coming soon to the site as well. I’ll be making a page of all my different projects, and adding to the pages that exist now. We’re also working on a cool header design, so keep an eye out for that one (if you’re not just reading from RSS, that is!).
One of my favorite new features are the Gravatars, which are the little icons in the comments section. It makes things a little more personal around here! Well, I hope you enjoy the new site. I’m very excited about it
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about 2 years ago
Nice work!
about 2 years ago
Its so bright and cheery.
about 2 years ago
Great work, Veronica! How is the seesmic office treating you?
about 2 years ago
cool
about 2 years ago
Are you using a plug-in for the twitter update?
about 2 years ago
Amazing new look.
about 2 years ago
Elegant, accessible, pretty and fun.
Oh, and the site design’s nice too …
about 2 years ago
Wow! It’s a really nice new cool look!
about 2 years ago
Nice. Clean looking. Congrats.
about 2 years ago
I was wondering about those little rendering glitches for a short while…
Spring cleaning a site always feels good – especially when the result is such a nice look.
10 / 10
about 2 years ago
I like the new layout Veronica! Well done
about 2 years ago
I really like it. Congrats to both the designer and the happy landlord!
about 2 years ago
it’s all web 2.0 and junk, robert likes.
oh and you have the longest blogroll ever but its okay.
about 2 years ago
Looks very slick.
about 2 years ago
It’s pretty and it’s readable. Good job.
Although I tried the URL “tech.gadgets.video.geekculture.gaming.kittens”
…and my browser just told me there was no such domain as ‘gaming.kittens’ (which I think is a shame).
about 2 years ago
Very nice design, sweet and clean…much better!
about 2 years ago
Hey, looking good. I am mid redesign myself and I was wondering if you knew (or could ask Jesse) what Twitter plugin he is using.
Cheers from Great White North
about 2 years ago
Nice and simple with a blue search box. That’s very cool.
about 2 years ago
Much nicer design – very clean and well laid out.
about 2 years ago
Awesome design , much better than before
about 2 years ago
Sweet!
I really like Design Disease’s stuff – we’re even looking at them at my job to redesign our website.
Good stuff!
about 2 years ago
Very nice! I like the combination of automatic active content (like the Twitter and Flickr streams) and determined new content (like your blog posts).
I have been trying to freshen up my blog for a while, but it does take some doing. WordPress is easy to customize, but you have to have some PHP/Javascript skills the really modify a template to your needs. Kudos to Jesse for doing such a great job!
about 2 years ago
sweet and clean, just like you. …okay, i know that mayyybe sounds weird, but you know what i mean. i hope.
about 2 years ago
You forgot to add “bacon” to the header!
about 2 years ago
Boooo, I want the vomit color scheme back!
)
about 2 years ago
Oh SNAP! Sweet look girl!
about 2 years ago
I miss the seldom-referred-to original title of your blog, “Music & Medicine.”
about 2 years ago
I like the new template very much! Good job Jesse! I’m currently running wordpress on my macbook via MAMP so that I can create a new theme for my site without actually making it live for the whole world.
about 2 years ago
i miss the sword and laser button and it is fascinating how easy you made me sign up for this gravatar stuff, just to show off my funny face… this works automatically once i associate an image with my gravatar account and email and post on any gravatar enabled blogs, right? i like the star at the top btw.
about 2 years ago
I love it. Definitely a down side to always using RSS feeds is that I never get to see site revamps. Glad you tweeted it. I also love your Twitter box, much nicer than the blogspot widget thing I’ve got. Nice job!!
about 2 years ago
Welcome to teh future!
about 2 years ago
Very Nice!
about 2 years ago
Looks nice!
about 2 years ago
It looks nice, even though it’s a bit.. big, if you know what I mean?
about 2 years ago
I like it
I like it a lot.
about 2 years ago
Rock with your bad self!
about 2 years ago
Copyright © 2008 – Veronica Belmont <— Huh? No Creative Commons?!
about 2 years ago
Hey all, Jesse the designer here, glad you all like the template. VB and I spent a lot of time on it!
Just to credit where it’s due:
The template is pretty much a mangled (I mean massaged) version of Gossip City.
Plugins used: Alex King’s Twitter Tools, FlickrRSS and Gravatar.
Have fun out there!
about 2 years ago
Wow… very nice!
I was kind of getting use to the old design… I don’t know, I guess I don’t like change very much, but I gotta say that this new design is really cool and look forward to the newly added snippets in the coming months!
Aweeeeeeesome!
about 2 years ago
Shiny!
about 2 years ago
I love your new blog design!
about 2 years ago
Very nice! (He says while checking out his new Gravatar…)
about 2 years ago
::must keep up with the belmonts::
(also checking out gravatars)
happy V-day.
about 2 years ago
Sweet new setup… I like a lot.
about 2 years ago
I must say, this is what I hate about blog readers. You don’t get to see the blog layouts. Anyway, I like it!
Keep it up,
Cameron
about 2 years ago
Hey V!
It’s nice clean job and suits you well!
-Ryan Singer
about 2 years ago
Sometimes less is more.
about 2 years ago
Nice and clean. bright and happy.
Love it!
Now all you need is to blog more often
about 2 years ago
I like the new design, especially the coulour scheme
btw: Adobe Labs has a very good colouring tool, do you know it? here you are:
http://kuler.adobe.com/#
about 2 years ago
I really enjoy the new look/design of the site. It is much easier to look at and much more organized. I personally feel that having all of the comments listed at once is a bit much. I would prefer to see 10 or so per page but that’s just me. The Gravatars were a much needed feature and they do exactly as you had hoped, they make things a little more personal…