Sunday, February 12, 2006

Change is Imminent

Eddo and the City - that was the name of my other template that everyone seemed to love. It's simple Italian Trattoria style masthed in sepia tones matched with subtle shades of brown seemed to be soothing to everyone.

The old template was indeed warm and inviting, but it wasn't complex. It contained very few special CSS elements and it did nothing to challenge my programming skills - this new template does. The template you are looking at took me about 30 hours to create. It uses more images that any other template design that I have done. It also has jump list for my blog roll and a flikr photo album that dynamically pulls my most recently uploaded images from the flikr website.

Eddo and the City took me about an hour to create. I created it last year, and it didn't push me to try anything new. If you know me, then you know that I like to constantly challenge myself. I get bored so darn easily and this site is my ultimate creative outlet. Here I am actually pretty good at something and I can see the results quickly. This site is my therapy.

Not all of my design concepts make good blog websites - if you see my Marry Me page you will see a design that I did that looked good in my brain, but didn't come out so well on the web - but it was fun trying it out. I am also working this site into a manageable cascading style sheet design where the style sheet is external to the page - something that I have been too lazy to alter in the past. Once I make these changes the site can be entirely edited by changing one page and that will be nice - especially when it comes to blogger updates. Publishing a new template for 6 blogs is time consuming.

So I have bored you long enough. I'll post something interesting later.

12 Comments:

Fred said...

I didn't understand anything you said. That's why I had someone else do it. CSS? Isn't that a TV show? :)

10:32 AM  
Maria del Carmen said...

Great job! And I was wondering, how much do you charge for an original template? Do you have a site with samples to choose from? BTW, I love what you did for Ordinary Christian! If you can, e-mail me with all the info: ilyzu@earthlink.net

Thanks, Eddo!

12:24 PM  
Saur?Kraut said...

ooooooookaaaaaayyyy. If it makes you happy... I still like the old design, though... But no matter what, you're Eddo My Friend and it's what you WRITE that counts with ME. ;o)

5:19 PM  
Shenna said...

Cool, I wish I had your computer knowledge! I would have so much fun.

Love the pics too - I love pics. The one of your sis and baby is so precious!

6:45 PM  
Katie said...

you are always changing my friend, i like the new design, I'm use to seeing something new and unexpected over here

6:10 AM  
Biggy said...

What, all that time spent on dogtags and you didn't even use them? I feel like an actor who's scene was cut. I was ready to put a "How I made the dog tags for Eddo's blog" post on my blog. my greatest work is on the cutting room floor. :(

7:14 AM  
Kristi said...

I LOVE the new look!

7:27 AM  
jes said...

oh. eddie. by far, this is my favorite.

9:42 AM  
Edgy Mama said...

This design is fricking amazing. You are a god.

3:21 PM  
Eddo said...

Thanks EM, you always know how to boost my ego!

3:50 PM  
Chad said...

Ok, so I got my page to link to a CSS file so a few quick changes, drag and drop to the FTP server and Viola! It's done.

Now, if only I were as cool as you with the graphic designs. Oh, well. I can't have good looks and be a web-god like you. We all have our burdens. Hahahaha!

8:57 PM  
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