The New Look">The New Look
Last year, when I launched aaronsilvers.com, I made a vow to myself (well, to my friend Will) that I would stick with the theme for at least a year. And I actually came pretty damn close.
When the desktop application for Tweetie came out, I was extremely impressed with the simplicity of the design, and when I was researching how Tweetie came about, I came across the atebits website, which was elegantly designed by Tim Van Damme. I dug down into Tim’s site which was a business card and was really blown away with his whole aesthetic. Clean, but not sterile — Tim’s designs offer a certain blend of sophistication and play that really appeals to me. I signed up for Readernaut, which is the kind of social networking site for reading I’d imagined wanting to join — another plus.
The New Look
When I found out a few months ago that Tim was working on developing a lifestream-style theme for WordPress through Woo themes, I all but vowed I’d switch to it. Once the screenshots were available, I knew I would. And when I Logan and Evie woke me up this morning at an ungodly hour, I couldn’t fall back asleep. Happily, I discovered in my 4am browsing that Woo Themes had finally released the Antisocial theme, and I didn’t hesitate for a second.
I love Tim’s business card site. This is a fine theme based on that design, thought it can get a bit crowded depending on the framework settings you use.
Looking forward to more good content – enjoy the new theme!
Thanks, dude. Hopefully I’m not making it too crowded — I’ve scaled back heavily on the amount of information I’m showing on the home page, as well as eliminated redundant and unused pages and features of the previous site design. I have some more integration work to do (ratings, view count) but this definitely feels fresher.