Posted by bludhound on Feb 23 In LBL News | 16 Comments

 

We seem to like new designs here at LittleBigLand, as this is (i think) our 4th design.

 

You may be thinking… Why another design? Well let me explain a few of the reasons for the change.

 

About 2 weeks ago i fell ill with a cold Man Cold. Out of boredom i started making a wordpress theme. I soon started to fall in love with what i was making, due to how clean and simple it was. Which is something i been wanting to do for LBL for a while now. So, i showed the rest of the team what i was making. They all agreed that the simple look was better then what we had. So i got stuck in on building a new theme for LBL and here it is. I hope you like it.

 

Now, hopefully you will notice faster load time on the blog, due to this theme being less image heavy. This theme works on all of the major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) without any problems (I think) and yes it also works on Internet Explorer. Well to a certain extent as IE will always refuse to work for some things. Round borders, gradients and box shadows all render in IE though thanks to some PIE (Mmmm, pie) Which is the main thing i guess.

 

Anyway. You may notice, that there’s now a nav button that says “Tutorial Submission” Indeed your eyes do not deceive you. I have also built a new feature for LittleBigLand where you can write and submit tutorials. These tutorials will then be shown in the “Tutorial Submission” section for everyone to see! You can read everything you need to know about that HERE.

 

So, i think that just about wraps it up. Except… The forum has not been changed to match the new theme yet. But it will be done later.. Or tomorrow.. Or maybe the next day. Don’t really like to give deadlines. :P

 

I really hope you all like this new theme and hope you aren’t consumed with rage at me for changing it. Now feel free to look around the whole site and check everything out in it’s new clothes. (Hint, try searching for something that doesn’t exist. ;) ) and do of course, let me know if you find any bugs. (Not real ones silly)

  • amazingflyingpoo

    Looks Great!

  • http://www.mediamolecule.com/ Tom

    Great work guys. 

    Bonus points for licensing Eigerdals ;)

    • http://www.melovewebdesign.com/ bludhound

      Thanks Tom. :)

      Yep. As soon as i found out the name of that font, i just had to buy it.

  • inge haukelidsæter

    Nice :D  

  • Mnniska

    I love the new look! Seems like LBL is changing clothes on a yearly basis now, me gusta! :D  

  • Cades99

    Totally tried ripping Eigerdals off the blog.

    True fail is what I experienced.

    • http://www.melovewebdesign.com/ bludhound

      Ha! thief! It’s a fully licensed font that i paid for, so can not be stolen. ;)

  • http://rocketcheetah.com Chimpanzee

    Love the new look. Great work, yet again!

  • Screenhogs

    Great Job Blud, this new design is nice and simple(Well it is way more than that, but you know what I mean)

  • Anonymous

    Good work, blud. :)

  • Anonymous

    Very cool! Love it! But just a heads up, you must have done something wrong with the PIE, IE shows transparency and no more for the gradient boxes. :/

    • http://www.melovewebdesign.com/ bludhound

      PIE can’t do transparent gradients.

      • Anonymous

        I mean that it shows no color or background at all. I only checked for IE9 though.

  • Tecnoboy1

    Hi guys, I’ll be with you next week, was checking a review of a game and when I saw the new design I just had to comment on how much nicer it is!

    And I love the ‘Mark was here’ Blud. ;)

  • http://www.littlebigland.com Mr Boots

    Looking very very nice indeed, Great work that man!

  • Smurfetta

    The site looks super cool.  I love it!!