Sunday
Jul192009
The Annual Facelift
As you can see, Icethetics looks very different tonight. I just finished up with the annual redesign. From the few comments I've seen already, it sounds like most of you like it. If you've got anything to add to the facelift discussion, leave a comment here.
Update on Thursday · Dec 24 · 2009 | 9:12 PM PST by
Chris
Chris
This is an update for posterity. It's Christmas and Icethetics has endured yet another redesign. In case you've stumbled across this post and are wondering what the July 2009 redesign looked like, here's a sample.
Screen shot taken just before the Christmas redesign
Reader Comments (37)
Looks good for the most part but thetext isn't showing in the extra's section until I mouse over and the links text color in the twitter updates is hard to read with the colors being so close.
Snazzy! I like it =)
i definitely like it... perhaps the post headings could stand out a bit more
I love the color scheme that you took from mixing the orange main color of NHLToL and the light blue main color of ToHL with both sites secondary white and dark gray colors.
Don't care much for the gray background... it seems a bit out of place, but the rest of it looks great!
Looks odd on my settings. The wordmark background doesn't even cover a full view on my screen and then I just get the blue background for the rest of it. It's not bad but seems awkward.
nvm right after posting my comment it seems to have changed to the angled lines and looks better.
Just change the 3rd Central page to look like the Tracker page and you're good to go buddy!
Nice color scheme, which if there were no orange I'd believe were derived from your team's colors, Chris. Considering we didn't know this was an "annual" thing, this was a nice surprise when I clicked the URL.
Not bad...I personally prefered the old one a bit better. It was nice plain and simple...and also a nice blue and white. Still looks fine anyways.
Oh, BTW, I notice Mikael Samuelsson is missing from the Free Agent Tracker Page. Just thought I'd point that out.
real nice!
Ta dow
Great look to the site. I'm glad you're back
Looks great, Chris! I liked the last look...but this one is really nice. Great job!
Looks awesome! I would expect nothing less!
I don't mind it, however, a color to gray gradient is never a good idea. The rest of it I like. I personally love the addition of grey, I just think the backgrounds need to be solid colors, and not have these akward scanlines.
Looks really nice. Much more professional feel. Great job.
i like it! takes me back to the old NHLToL website days!
Awesome!
Wow!! Its all like BOOSH in your face! I like it!
Keep it like this. I love it.
Frankly, AWESOME!!! :D
Concepts? Concepts? Concepts?
Looks good Chris, a little more akin to the one before the last, which I preferred.
Also, have you thought about sorting the tracker so the most recent signings/trades are at the TOP? And, you're missing Jonas Gustavsson from that list as well.
still pretending the colours are some kind of nod to the Oilers
Whoa. Didn't know that would make everything bold. Sorry about that.
very nice look! I went here and was happy to see the changes. Keep up the good work.
Looks real sharp, and I love the white words on the dark background.
Looks good duder
Looking good.
Whatever happened to GFB (Matt the designer)?
Real sharp, not sure I like it tho. Needs more orange, in my opinion.
Oilers colors kinda! I LIKE!
Ya that's true, the top is really orange and as soon as you scroll down a bit its gone. I think Orange should be a key part of icethetics.
I agree with you guys on the orange so I made some minor adjustments. Thoughts?
Brilliant!
Awesome!
Great, I love the colors and how it's a bit darker. Oh btw, you're doing an incredible job with this site, can't wait until Thursday so the IceHL starts again ! The Free Agent Tracker is nice too but you're missing Travis Moen from Sharks to Habs (I know I know you can't put them all on and it's only a cool little addition to this awesome website so I'm not complaining just letting you know some that are missing.)