New Look - 9 comments
Does anyone out there have any ideas for freshening up the look of Bloggers4Labour: changing theme, designing a logo, etc.?
I don't think it's that important, after all I quite like the red/grape combo, but then it's hardly the last word in blog design, and I'd be interested to see any ideas that are bold and distinctive (ideally red-based, but I'd really rather not display article text in white). I'd be prepared to consider a screen-filling, three-column layout. As a guide, I do like the new Talk Politics design, except for the white/cream on grey/black, and it's also a little "busy" above the fold.
Update: In a flash of creative dynamism, I put together this mocked-up page. It reduces the grape presence (I like grapes) on the page by about 80%, reasserts our "red" credentials, and removes the grey rounded-corners that I could never be bothered to fix when I modified the original template. I would have liked to have a nice image strip at the top, a watermark-style background image, or perhaps a background image pinned to the bottom-left as you scroll, but I couldn't find the right one. All the same, I think the font/colour choice and bold background gives us a bit more "attitude".
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I think the alignment should be altered - how about a kamikaze stategy of lurching leftward?
Nooo! Keep it in the centre - though I mean that strictly in terms of screen alignment as opposed to political ;)
I like the idea of a three column design though please don't get one like the new Talk Politics design. That's so busy it hurts my head!
Keep the red, but the grape's awful. And I'd go for the centre, but since the coming of the Cameron era, I've been reprogrammed to say that at every opportunity.
You could do without the slogans straight from Labour Party HQ.
You can be Labour supporting without looking like slavish party hacks.
slavish party hacks
Yawn. If you did more reading and less trolling, I might take your opinion seriously, Anonymous. Nobody else seems to think we're slavish party hacks, but you just had to try it on, didn't you?
Poor reading comprehension.
I said LOOKING LIKE slavish party hacks.
Anyway, perrhaps you can offer your non-slavish explanation for using perhaps the worst political slogan known to man: Britain Forward Not Back - in Labour Party graphics, no less?
Go on - be all independent minded on that one!
If people are so shallow as to be bothered by that kind of irrelevence, they're very welcome (in fact, positively encouraged) to go elsewhere.
Nice sidestep.
Okay, if a crappy slogan is handed down from HQ, you'll likely put it up here - slavishly or not.
Only if it's really crappy.
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