Oooh, I’m Telling Digg!
I guess I should have made this my first post, but thought I would have come up with a design faster than this. Yes, the divspace logo looks just like Digg’s logo. Yes, the gradient header looks just like theirs too. And yes, even the search form mimics theirs.
Can I design? After all, this is a website about web development, which would include web design. And granted there aren’t any articles about web design yet, I can design.
Here’s my dilemma. I put this site up four days ago. The default WordPress theme just wasn’t going to cut it, and I really can’t put a design out in four days. Well, I guess I can, but not when I’m designing for myself. See, the problem is, I didn’t realize, or even think, that this site would get the amount of traffic it is getting already. Each day, the site has gone up by roughly 250-300 unique visitors. You do the math on that one.
A majority of my traffic is coming from StumbleUpon, and as of yesterday, a lot more is coming from Digg.
You could even say that I gave absolutely no thought to the design of this website, and you would be right, I have not. I simply took out the default header, put this one in, and changed the font face and size. The social bookmark links is nothing but a script I use on many of my other webstites, and the post tag cloud was more for the sake of writing an article.
It was never my intention to copy Digg, I just needed something quick, and I needed it with minimal work. I wanted to focus on the content more than anything.
Digg’s logo is amazingly simple to recreate. The horizontal sections of a letter are three pixel blocks, and the vertical sections are four pixel blocks. It’s nothing more than a bitmap, pixelated font that’s jazzed up a bit with some corners having a slight rounded look and a hint of gradient. The same goes for the header, nothing but a gradient. I did, however, make my own images, even the cute little magnifying glass. But that’s beyond the point.
So, as of today, I’ve decided to actually give divspace a design. When will it be done? Tough question. I have a lot of backend programming to do, because as much as I love WordPress, it seriously lacks in specific areas. You can trust that it won’t look or act like any other WordPress blog out there though.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:57 am
well, no worries, digg slightly changed their format