Web design: Ekaya.nl

To me, blogging is way more then just writing an article. I spent a great amount of time on my blog Ekaya.nl on styling. With this I mean the actual design of the blog and writing valid html and css (front end development).

Sometimes, it’s even more fun than blogging…

Car wreck
For my blog on music, which runs on the WordPress CMS, I recently switched to one of the latest WordPress themes: ’twentytwelve’. It turned out to be quite amazing when it comes to html5 functionality. Unfortunately, the way the front-end is set-up in this theme -in my humble opinion- is rather devious. If someone would visit my site on a tablet, it would look like a car wreck.

Tablet vs. computer
I think, a visitor on a tablet should have the opportunity to view a website the same way as on a computer. Not necessarily through a mobile theme. A great excuse for me to start with a redesign!

This time I developed my new theme on a great wordpress theme for front-end developers: Nude. -Gotta love the name!

Easy to edit
This theme is based on the WordPress twentyten theme. It has all the functionalities one could wish for, and it’s really easy to edit. …That is, if you have knowledge about html, css and WordPress…

“I checked what was hip and happening via StumbleUpon, got inspired and started drawing.”

Design
Ekaya has always had a few fixed principles in the field of corporate identity.The use of color should always consist of the colors black, white and ‘Ekaya red’ (a specially selected shade of red). In addition to that, there is the logo, which always must appear prominently.

The principles allow enough space for innovative design. I started with a functional design, based on the most important functions of my website and the principles of interaction design. Then the real fun started; I checked what was hip and happening via StumbleUpon, got inspired and started drawing.

No consessions
After a few evenings of styling and writing code (and also writing music reviews), I had developed my first html5 ready WordPress theme. Without any consessions to my standards, completely the way I wanted it.

Am I proud of this? You bet I am! I have made a theme that is ready voor de next two years. Don’t be surprised though, when in half a year, I’ve made a new design. Afterall, this latest design was the tenth for Ekaya in five years time…

Visit Ekaya.nl and let me know what you think of it!

Tags: design, ekaya, front-end, html 5, wordpress
Geplaatst op: oktober 26, 2012