Speaking to freedom and creativity
This morning I noticed some oddities, and alert and aware, I woke up for my nine-headed hell hound rounds. When I checked events, I found the following watchdog event:
The economic squeeze may have forced many businesses to either shut down or come up with a new strategy that works in a more conscious marketplace. It has also created space for open source software, and for innovators and entrepreneurs to get started in a cost-conscious way using open source software.
If you are new to open source software or IT, the Open Source landscape can be overwhelming. We created this guided tour through the CMS landscape so you can have a relaxed look-around and gather impressions and workable knowledge to get started in a focused way.
The tour uses four free and open source Content Management software systems: CMS Made Simple, Exponent, Joomla!, and Drupal.
Each has its own typical interfaces and quirks and the four are representative of the maturity levels discerned and mentioned in scratch that itch!
I focused on whitespace, identity-marketing-orange and red-pill-action colors. What do you think of the look and feel?
Of the menu's unfolding to the left?
I simplified the whole content organisation, made wyrdweb's news more prominent, and improved SEO
: Made theme css and site XHTML and CSS compliant, checked important page title tags and added those, when missing -- I still need to check all links.
Also, I am still working on a searchbox for in the header ... the quick and dirty solution box broke the XHTML (of course). And I am going for more fluidity. Oh, and no more "px". All "em" sizes for fonts.
The logo is made by Ushie, and so are the little leaves, and the icons are adopted from Materia (people running linux will recognize them, and people not on linux will perhaps recognize them later <grin>).
All feedback welcome!
I'm playing with website layouts, reading up, looking around to see what interests me. As Nynke, our resident theming wizz said:
"Having a fresh theme always inspires me to do new writing"
And I'm looking for some fresh inspiration, to (re)write value propositions and services for a couple of 'my' "corporate" sites. And the blog could do with a restyling, since I'm looking at it almost daily (no lack of fresh inspiration there...).
For non-theming wizzes: a theme is layout that is applied over the basic content of a website. For instance, with a few clicks we could have all of the links that are on the left to appear on the right, or give the site a completely different colour scheme.
