Folks following me on Twitter (@GamerTraveler) over the last few days got to experience my frustration as I redesigned the TGT website. I was looking to apply a magazine-style theme to WordPress, but those suckers have so many fiddly bits that they were just not working here for whatever reason. I liked the previous look just fine, and maybe one day I’ll go back to it, but it was time for a change, and thus I went with my second theme choice, Atahualpa. Take a look:
I finally did a new header banner based on the pre-installed one my previous theme had, as well as custom favicon based on the “world d20″ logo. This theme’s structure allows me to spread out information much better along two sidebars and leaves a lot of space for possible future use. The central story area is spacious so articles, most of which I publish with images, do not seem cramped, a pet-peeve of mine. The theme’s width is fluid so hopefully that means people with smaller screens than mine (1680×1050) won’t have a problem with the site either.
FYI, when I was doing the last few tweaks today, it was found that there were some suspicious iframes hiding in the code of highmoonmedia.com, the parent site for this website, and that was giving some people a warning notice. Thanks to Stuart Robertson (@RobertsonGames) I was able to find all the annoying instances and delete them. The site is working fine now, and you can confirm it via Google Safe Browser.
Even though I will probably continue to tweak it here and there, all in all I’m very happy with the new look, and I hope you like it as well.
It’s nice. I like the white. It emphasizes the content.
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I like it!
As I said on Twitter… the site looks amazing
Thank you so much for the feedback, everyone!
Looks great! Are you installing gooseGrade to it?
@John – I was, yes. I installed the plugin but nothing happened for 24 hours, so I took it off until I have a chance to tinker under the hood again. Does it normally take that long for the widget to appear on the site?
Did you go into Settings-> gooseGrade and then enter your gooseGrade username and password? It should appear instantly.
@John – Yup. In fact, I just removed and reinstalled it, set it to appear in the lower-left corner, and it’s not showing up. Maybe it’s an issue with the theme?
Can you email me at [email] and we can keep troubleshooting this problem?
The error is fixed. It was looking for http://www.highmoonmedia.com/tgt/ rather than http://highmoonmedia.com/tgt/
Happy editing!
@John – You rock. Thanks!
So, Dan…love your new site.
I was redoing the FFoCaG site and thought I would jump over to see what you were doing and I guess we were channeling the same vibe. Even though we used the same them to mod, both sites look different enough. I love it more and more…
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