If you are reading this post then you will have no doubt noticed that the new design for tomglenn.co.uk has arrived!
I will admit, this has been the goal for my site since I first created it a few years ago. Somehow I managed to get side tracked along the way and through neglect it has become a rarely used personal blog, nothing more. However, a few weeks back I decided that this needed to change and I went ahead and designed the new look in Photoshop. This design had been sitting on my desktop in PSD format for the past few days, when yesterday I decided to actually get down to some hardcore coding!
No more than two days later and here we are with a finished, and gorgeous (even if I do say so myself!), dark themed, clean and professional site design which focuses more on me and my portfolio – rather than the blogging side of things. I even got round to adding the new portfolio section and have already begun filling it with my projects!
All in all, I am extremely pleased with the way it has turned out. I will probably still continue to tinker with it over the next few weeks, but I believe it is a damn sight better than the stock templates I was previously using! I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback, so please do leave your comments below!
hi tom
really cool design! much better than before
Thanks for the feedback and kind words!
I must admit I am extremely pleased with the end result.
YEah! I think the new design is really great. Very clean and professional. Nice work.
I’m fairly new to your blog so I didn’t see the previous design. Perhaps, you can put a before/after photos in this blog post?
Hi Kai,
The theme I was using before was actually by WooThemes, and it was called Typebased.
It is one of their free themes and can be found here: http://www.woothemes.com/2008/11/typebased/
Quite an interesting theme update you have for the blog. The color combination is very effective as it helps in clear reading and it is easy on the eyes. The pictures appear very clear and bright with the dark background. Keep it up !