Comments on: Throwing down the dev gauntlet

By: LHK

LHK — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:26:47 +0000

Hi,

my best guess is that it’s the current WP community.

Most root for technology and gimmicks over design, design being understood anyway as divs and semantics, to cite Andy Rutledge, rather than as what it is.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:40:14 +0000

You’re joking, right? About the ‘different flowers’?

I will definitely keep the vibrant colors in mind. I’m a gray man, myself.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:30:51 +0000

I’m still waiting for the official release of that theme.I’m hoping he’ll switch it up just a bit though…. maybe use different flowers or somthing.

I don’t like that blue color of fireball.It’s almost sickly looking.Everytime I see it I get a really icking feeling.I love dark themes and colorful backgrounds but you must use vibrant dark colors that lift the spirit.Fireball depresses me.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:17:42 +0000

Har har har. Good ol' Azul. Good times.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:13:52 +0000

plane jane has that azul feeling to it…

except without the blatant image ripping.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:57:23 +0000

Didn't I just mention that I had to throw out the theme I was working on because it looked too much like Daring Fireball? Check out Plane Jane. What a kick in the pants.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:01:00 +0000

god no.

terry’s a sham, i’ll post about it sooner or later. did you see administry’s post? he commented in the thread and emailed terry. it’s ridiculous.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:32:15 +0000

Thanks Shawna and Adam for the nice words and encouragement. I’ll definitely have something together for the theundersigned’s competition.

Adam—Did you ever receive your prize for best two column design? Tell me you did. Please.

Shawna—I agree on those MovableType competition. But $17k in prizes? Wild. The Typo themes, though, didn’t really strike me. Just too many fixed width, two-columns. Lots of pretty pictures and colors, though . . . if you’re into that kinda thing.

David—I was only actually somewhat confused. But your nice words go a long ways. Cheers.

The theme I am/was working on (working title: Spartan) kinda hit a wall. Completely and totally unintentionally, it looks way too similar to Daring Fireball.

Just what David is looking for: the White as Milk theme “reimagined” as Black as Coffee.

Hey, that’s pretty good actually. No, no. Back to the drawing board.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:07:02 +0000

i’ve typed 3 or 4 comments and deleted them cos they were too whiny.

anyway, i’m with shawna – i wanna see a dark plaintxt theme

maybe you should enter it in theundersigned’s competition. if, you know, it doesn’t suck.

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:04:00 +0000

I have not linked to your themes? Wow…how is that possible? I honestly feel really bad. I love Barthelme, blog.txt, and Simplr. I am sorry I have not featured them before, but I promise to do it tomorrow.