Turnthescrew v3

Jul 2, 2008 by Dan Taylor    No Comments    Posted under: News, Technology

Welcome to the now 3rd version of TurntheScrew.  I felt that it was time for a new look, as I often do about every 6-9 months, and the move to a new host, along with the err..umm…kinda sorta database flub, it was a good time to update the look.

After hours of searching for new templates, and testing some, seeing what I could change with others I happened upon this new theme that you see here.  ‘The Unstandard‘ was coded by Derek Punsaian over at 5thirtyone.com.  This guy has some seriously sharp templates.  Go visit his site.

Another reason for visiting his site is to compair and contrast my own slight modifications.  Nothing drastic, but you know me…I can’t stand a simple cookie cutter, hey I found it, let me just slap at up and run with it process.  Of course I had to customize it.  You’ll notice right off the bat that I’ve replaced all the orange from Derek’s site with red here at TTS.  Reasoning being that while I have nothing against orange, I wanted something a bit stronger.  A bit bolder.  A primary color.  Red seemed to be the obvious choice, as it’s also a carry over from the ‘old’ TTS style template accent color.  With the help of BigBlueBottle, I also managed to get a little slicing and dicing of the css stylesheet in order to move the tabs at the top a bit closer together.  Dunno…just looks a bit better to my eye.

All in all, I’m pretty darn happy with this new look.  There are a few things that I’ve still got to take care of, but as always, TurntheScrew is a work in process and will get to them shortly (think widgets).  What are your thoughts on the new look?  Leave a comment below.