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Brajeshwar v8.0.0To the wildly unknown, tempting resurrection of a new future.
After brushing it aside many times, I finally gave up and finished off my new site design (more or less). The new design is not because the earlier version – Brajeshwar v7.0 wasn’t good enough. It is more because I needed a new design with more width to the content (most suggested feedback by readers and visitors), new advertisement slot placements and to penance the guilt of sticking to “a” design for more than a year.
So, here it is – the all new Brajeshwar v8.0.0 – for the year 2008; it is the 8th design version since the site started in summer 2001. I’ve tried my best to keep the design simple but I must admit that it has become more complex than I planned.
I’ve not set myself a deadline for the public release of the Brajeshwar v8.x.x Wordpress Theme. However, I’ll be working on it this year end and will try my best to make it before January, 2008.
The planned features for the public downloadable Wordpress Theme are;
- Avoid as much dependency on Wordpress Plugins as possible.
- Degrade gracefully without errors (but visible to the site Admin) if required Wordpress Plugins are not installed.
- Switchable between a regular blog type design or the more elaborate layout design (the default version on this site)
- Represent user editable options through the “theme options editor”.
- Appropriate widget enabled sections (I never liked Widgets though).
- Enable Gravatar for comment authors (it’s safe to use Gravatar now that it has become part of Wordpress’s parent company, Automatic)
- Enable optional Graceful Email Obfuscation of email links within the theme.
- And many more that will make the Wordpress Theme easy, plug-n-play.
Current available features;
- Styled to include Figures for Images, Photos which will be automatically adjusted for the Single Article Post (wider) and the Home Page (narrower).
- Clean, spacious comments system heavily inspired by Jeffrey A. Croft.
- Uncluttered Advertisement Slot for a 300×250 px, two 125×125 px Image Banner and 50 AdsIcon.
Beta Testers
I know, this is funny but I’m looking for people who can test the theme on their test sites or on their local machines. This can help me finish off the Public Releasable version sooner. I’m open to design, implementation and optimization discussions. For those willing to help me out in making this Wordpress theme for the public, sign up for the Discussion Group (powered by Google Groups). Beta Test Download will be available only through the Discussion Group.
What is a Figure?
The figure element represents a paragraph consisting of embedded content and a caption and will be included in HTML 5. But we do not have HTML 5 yet! Well, here comes the nice article from A List Apart to help you understand how to use figures in HTML 4 – If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure.
Note: This theme do not use the automatic Figure resizing with Javascript as the scripts are too heavy for such a small enhancement.
Advertisements
I’ve introduced few forms of advertisements to the site – AdsIcon and the 2 types of Image Banners Ads (a 300×250 px and two 125×125 px). AdsIcon is a Favicon (or a 16×16 px Image) display advertisement, much like the ones on CSS Remix.
If you wish to advertise on this site, feel free to contact me with your desired option.
Note: AdsIcon will be limited to just one single line (that should be about 50 such links) and no ads will be accepted once these slots are filled.
While we’re on the topic of new advertisement options, I would like to thank Adii for buying out both the 125×125 Image Banners –
- Adii – freelancer designer, Wordpress rockstar, blogger and Web 2.0 strategist
- Premium News Wordpress Theme – an awesome news styled WP theme
Adii (pronounced “ay-dee”) is a freelance designer, Wordpress rockstar, blogger and Web 2.0 strategist. He specialize in designing pretty websites, with strategic aims and he’s a whole lot more comfortable designing blogs. He use Wordpress for 90% of his personal and client projects, although he’ve recently ventured into doing just designing and CSS / XHTML work on request.
Disclaimer
I know the site will break at few sections as it’s on continual enhancements, I’ll be tinkering and tweaking it in the coming days, weeks. I’d be glad if you can join the Discussion Group or just send me an Email about anything you wish to say about the new design.
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I really love the new look.
Thanks Rohit!
Holy Moly!
The best new look I have ever seen
Amazing Brajeshwar
The font color is light. It strains the eye. See if you can darken it a bit. Overall, the theme is good. If possible, provide a light separator for the right sidebar besides the article.
3 Cheers on the efforts put in!
@Dj Flush
Thanks a lot.
@NitinPai
Thanks for the feedback and point noted.
Wow, such huge feedbacks within such a short span. I’m taking notes of all feedbacks (including those that came in through email).
I’ll definitely make things more easier to read, darken the text, put that separator and I now have more than multiple solutions to the requirements on the side of the articles, how to improve the archives and what plugins I should look at.
Thanks again and would love more feedbacks and suggestions.
Hey.
Nice new look, Brajeshwar.
However, I was just clicking some links on your site (random
), and the “view all tags” link, http://www.brajeshwar.com/tags/, returns a 404 error. I know you are still very busy, and are probably already aware of it,
Also, will you continue to have the Actionscript 2.0 reference available? If it is here, I looked everywhere, and couldn’t find it. Maybe I’m just blind.
Really like that reference guide.
Keep up the good work.
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- Ziro out.
Awesome Job, Brajeshwar!!!
The design is very unique and it’s really good.
The only thing lacking I feel is that there’s nothing like a ’seperator’ between the different elements in the page.
May be you can work on that
Take care!
The new look is seriously brilliant. If you stumble upon it after going thru many other sites it feels like an oasis in the desert, like a raindrop in the Indian summer, like a malgudi days book amidst a bunch of telephone directories, like spotting ur own self in an old b/w school photograph, like a mac amidst windows machines… its fantastic!
Walmik, how about “finding a vada pav at MCDonalds”..
nitinpai, how about your face and my fist.
Hi Ziro,
All links are actually there, just that I’ve not been able to set them up yet. Yes, tags are not working and few other links.
The ActionScript Reference and Downloads are still there. I’ll put up a link very soon.
For now, look for them at
Enjoy!
The new theme looks great – very tidy.
However, the images at the sides of the search field looks a bit off on my Firefox browser. I am using 1280 × 1024 px.
Hey Dilip,
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll look into it. Of course, I’ve earmarked December 2007 as the month of brajeshwar.com revamp.
Actually looks good.
Cheers!!
-Tarun
Thanks Tarun. Feel good to get such a comment from you.
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