OMG! Ubuntu! gets a facelift 09/02/2010
If you visit OMG! Ubuntu! no doubt you'll notice something different. That's right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu! So what's new? The site is now on wordpress instead of blogger and on a dedicated new server, which means it's much faster, and we have a lot more flexibility when it comes to formatting of posts and customizing the layout and style to truly give it that OMG! feel. There's an entirely new design that brings in elements of the new Ubuntu branding, and also sets the standard for the new websites that Ohso will be opening up over the next few months. The new design features a much nicer category, tag and search system to make it easy to find older posts, a custom set of icons, new sidebar widgets, a new colour pallete, lovely static pages and a beautiful footer that all combine to make this site something unique. The design was done by me and later on I'll be going into detail examining some of the new aspects of the design, decisions we had to make and unique features that makes this website something we're really pleased with. In case you didn't notice, the new website is over 3x faster than the old one! Niall Molloy, our ace web developer and optimization ninja has worked long and hard making sure that this website is one of the fastest around. Niall also uses the new CSS3 standard to give lovely fading rollovers and other assorted details, so if you're using Firefox 4 or Google Chrome you can enjoy these. Niall will be talking about the code behind the site in a later post, including the challenge of transferring nearly 2000 posts with links and comments intact from one provider to another. We hope you like the new site! Comments09/02/2010 01:33
omg, I simply can't explain how good it feels to be the first one to post a comment.. It's great! Anyway, you guys totally ROCK and I'd love to help you with whatever you need for free. You got my mail & my twitter, feel free to contact me :) 09/02/2010 17:40
Congrats you two (and your web dev). Keep up the great work and best of luck!! Nathan 09/02/2010 23:12
Love your new site! Its awesome! Andy Fitz 09/03/2010 11:09
Looks fantastic, Comments are closed. |
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