If you haven’t been here in a few days, you’ll now notice that jd.com looks different, and a little more significant than the, “Hey, did you get a haircut?” sort of looking different. There are a few reasons for this, the biggest of which was that the other blank theme I used had no ongoing support. The website belonging to the girl that made it went poof, and with the upgrade to the next version of WordPress I thought it made sense to switch to a more WordPress-supported blank theme.
I did very little customizing to it — only 38 CSS declarations, and I could probably optimize that a little bit. Still no crazy graphics or colors, no super-charged goofiness links to every which way. The only significant functional change I made was turning comments back on, after turning them off for a few good months. It was an experiment that ended up with people making comments on the post elsewhere. I’d rather have people make comments on the actual post if at all, but ideally it would be through email. But I’m not going to get bent out of shape about it.
Missing out on the free donuts at work the other day — that’s something to get really upset about.
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I really liked the steady logo thing at the bottom right corner!
and that tiny smiley too 🙂
Glad you liked the logo. Sometimes I think it’s too bold/overbearing in the corner, but maybe not.
The smiley is there by default, from WordPress. Sometimes it shows up, sometimes not. Not sure why that happens.
New design looks good…way better than the new Buzzgrinder layout! 🙂
Thanks Josh! Yeah man…the Buzzgrinder layout. Can’t stand it.