After a lot of work and experiments I’m proud to launch fresh and new webexpedition18.
I redesigned blog completely and I hope you like the new layout.
I was trying to create clean, simple and easy on the eye layout, and to make browsing and reading much comfortable.
This new layout wouldn’t be possible without help of my dear friends: Francesco Mugnai, Dusan Kitic and Marko Randjelovic.
Header
I decided to create very simple header with bokeh background, containing just basic navigation and typographic logo.
Main Content
It’s two column layout: main container for posts and sidebar. At the very top of main container is Featured Slider showing 5 featured posts. Sidebar contains places for advertisers, popular posts and search field. I want it to keep simple as much as possible, without fancy tag cloud and flickr stream.
The metadata for each post are displayed in a new way. Also teasers for each post are more compact.
Footer
The footer is big and bold.
Top of the footer is used to display latest tweets.
Main footer area is a three column layout and contains: Blogroll in first column, Featured Posts in second column and in the third column are located Subscribe options, Social links to Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and hosting company link.
Bottom of the footer is for legal stuff.
At The End
Please leave a comment about layout. Every comment, suggestion and critic is welcome!
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About Nikola Lazarevic
Web Designer, Blogger, M.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Nis, Serbia. Founder of webexpedition18.com. You can find me on Twitter.
I’m so loving your new template! It’s very readable and clean, both on the homepage and in the articles.
A great work indeed my friend!
27. Jan. 2010.
Very nice theme indeed! I particulary love the typography and the font used.
27. Jan. 2010.
I love the new look, awesome work!!. I totally agree with @Andrea. Also love the color color palette. Very positive change. Keep up the good Work!!
27. Jan. 2010.
Certainly looks refreshing and much better than the previous one
27. Jan. 2010.
I really like the new layout, the bright color scheme and the large footer. I also really like the featured post slider on the home page.
The one thing I’m having a bit of trouble with is the readability of the font in the main content area and the comments. I would suggest a more readable sans-serif such as a helvetica/arial stack for those areas with smaller type.
27. Jan. 2010.
Thanks Angie!
I will fix readability problem asap!
28. Jan. 2010.
great work, the bright colour scheme works well. big fan of the font used
27. Jan. 2010.
The new redesign looks awesome. Love this colors and the logo.
You made a great job.
27. Jan. 2010.
Love the fresh look – except for the main font. I guess I’m old-fashioned.
27. Jan. 2010.
Very fresh and vibrant feel to it all, i love it. Clean, crisp and readable..great job.
27. Jan. 2010.
Luv u’re color scheme and the fade on top. Nice nav and comment area. I agree, that the font is kind of blurred or something. Maybe use another font to make it look cleaner. Too much empty space on right panel. Overall, very nice. I like. Look forward to you following back on Twitter.:)
27. Jan. 2010.
Nice! Digging the new look man! I really like the brightness and simpleness
Only suggestions are (as some have already mentioned) is the font needing a bit of tweeking – and maybe throw a nice slide effect to the ‘back to the top’ link over there –>
Other than that, Great work
27. Jan. 2010.
The new layout is great. It`s fresh and stylish.
Good work!
27. Jan. 2010.
Looks awesome! I like the simple and professional look! Well done Nikola. Good luck.
27. Jan. 2010.
Very nice
it’s very simple and easy to navigate. I redesigned mine a couple of days ago too.
27. Jan. 2010.
Hey Nikola, great job on the redesign. Love the new look. With that said, here are just a few suggestions.
For the body text, I would stick with Arial or something simple. The font isn’t very readable on my PC. On the MAC, it looks stunning but PC doesn’t render it too well, especially on Firefox.
Also,I like the orange background, but it might strain the eyes a bit after reading a long tutorial or article. I don’t know, I might just be too picky.
Other than that, great job mate. Light years better than the old design. Keep up the great work.
27. Jan. 2010.
I always thought that your blog had great content, but the layout was not up to it. The new re-design instead is very fresh and energetic!
I like the bokeh effect that highlights the logo. The content slider is a must for any blog, and the footer is awesome. Also the twitter display is very well positioned.
Probably the only thing I don’t like is the salmon/pink colour used for the sidebar’s background.
For the rest, we love webexpedition18, keep sharing great content, the web can not exist without great people like Colaja!
27. Jan. 2010.
Omg Nikola it looks fabulous! You did a very nice job, looks so sweet, how did you know I love orange?
The typography is awesome, although I’m used to reading Tahoma, hehe. Keep up up the great work!
~ K.
27. Jan. 2010.
Fantastic my friend, very fresh and clean… love the footer and orange background. Great job Nikola.
27. Jan. 2010.
Nikola, congratulations on the revamp of your blog design! It looks fantastic and memorable, especially with the bright orange
. I like how everything is very structured and neat. I wish you all the very best, still a huge huge fan of your grungy social icons!
27. Jan. 2010.
oh and I have added you to my Blogroll
27. Jan. 2010.
Thanks Sneh!
28. Jan. 2010.
This new look is far better than previous one.
I love the stylish look & feel/color scheme, the grid and the font.
Very well organized and clean layout
Well done Nikola!
27. Jan. 2010.
What to say? Your new layout is… orange. Apart from this joke I really like it, it’s clean and well structured. I love typography and main navigation hover state, and its big footer. The only thing I would change is the horizontal divider in the sidebar. It’s a little weird (wrong colors). Apart from that I really like it and I will continue to follow your great articles. Great!!
27. Jan. 2010.
Well done, buddy! You’re welcome and even more so because my help hardly deserves a mention.
27. Jan. 2010.
A huge improvement Nikola
I love the warm orange, very tropical. I also think it goes great with the browny purplely colour in the footer, would be nice to see that colour in the header maybe?
As mentioned before, the font used looks gorgeous on a mac (as read) but as Cleartype is not enabled on default on PC’s it can look a bit pixally.
I like the featured posts section but feel the title should be above or below the image, else the reader has to guess what the post is about.
I also think the sidebar being the same height as the content can leave it rather empty. Empty is not the same as white space.
Furthermore, it would be nice to see the “follow us on twitter” and an RSS link near the header to make it easy for people to get involved with webexpedition18.
Aside all those remarks, I love the style, the colour scheme and the welcoming feel the site now has
Keep it up Nikola!
27. Jan. 2010.
The design looks fantastic!
Well done!!
27. Jan. 2010.
WOW! I really enjoy reading this comments
Actually I’m walking on air right now!
I want to say BIG THANK YOU to all of you guys, for taking time to drop by here and leave a comment and suggestions! It means a lot to me and I really appreciate it.
27. Jan. 2010.
Love the re-design, a nice simple layout and you can’t go wrong. And orange just happens to be my favourite colour as you can probably tell from my site!
28. Jan. 2010.
Love the lively orange color. The layout is simple, elegant, and very welcoming.
28. Jan. 2010.
I know I am totally late, but that just happens because I usually read through the RSS reader and seldom actually go to sites. Now I finally found the time to go through my favored tweets and I have to say: awesome job, Nikola!
I like the new design much better than the old one and you really succeeded in keeping it minimalistic, stylish and functional at the same time. And I am a sucker for orange, so there. The entire color scheme rocks!
Again, great work. Very inspirational, fresh and inviting. With a site as appealing as this, I will probably leave my RSS reader more often to come and read the article right here.
Cheers.
11. Feb. 2010.