New blog design

Posted by Fahad on Tue, Nov 17 2009

Hey, I am not a designer

Since I can't design super awesome backgrounds or logos with ultra cool text effects, I decided to design something simple yet elegant by making the most out of my CSS skills. As you can see, I have used two OpenType fonts (thanks to CSS @font-face) for titles, navigation bar, anchors, and form labels.

I didn't think much about typography when I started working on the theme, but after experimenting with a few OpenType fonts I understood how quickly they can change the entire look of a design. I think I will soon become a typography geek if I keep designing a few more themes like this focusing on typography ;)

Fonts

Just in case you are wondering what fonts I used, here they are:

Will be released as a package soon

I will be releasing this theme as a package for other Croogo users soon.

Lots of new features have been introduced after the release of Croogo 1.1, including multilingual content and theme uploads right from the admin panel. Keep yourself updated by watching the project on github: http://github.com/fahad19/croogo.

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10 Comments

Pablo said on Nov 17, 2009
Looking nice!
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Andrew said on Nov 17, 2009
Wow, looks great. I am also working on releasing a theme soon. Hopefully by the end of the week.
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Andrew said on Nov 17, 2009
Hey you can check out my new theme that I am releasing here.

http://andrw.net/blog/new-croogo-theme-preview
dogmatic69 said on Nov 17, 2009
looking cool bud :), i also lack in the design department but this is good
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Fahad said on Nov 17, 2009
thanks for the comments guys. I think I should take designing more seriously now.
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Gabri said on Nov 18, 2009
Very interesting project! A stupid question... how to reach a translated content (which url)? I tried some url but nothing...
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Fahad said on Nov 18, 2009
thats because all my posts are in English. haven't translated them.

sample i18n URL would be like this: site.com/eng/blog/post-title/ (where 'eng' is the locale for English)
traedamatic said on Dec 01, 2009
hey,

nice site! nice cms

I right now looking for a good and easy customize cms. Your's preety neat! I also know cakephp for a while. Maybe i begin to use croogo...

nice work!

matic
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x said on Jan 16, 2010
I right now looking for a good and easy customize cms. Your's preety neat! I also know cakephp for a while.Maybe i begin to use croogo...
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Name Server Spy said on Jan 26, 2010
Your UI and font-size looks nice.
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