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Just a quick note – Matt & Dan have gone active with the new design over at halftonreviews.com.  Head on over there and check it out.  =)

It’s required a bit of extra work on Matt’s part to get it working (editing a lot of post info).  But it’s there.  =)

The site is heavily enabled with javascript (to hide some elements and make others “pop”).  I was going to actually add a few other things, one cool one would have been a script that would automatically add in a google map based on any location info within the page.  The problem though, would come when the page itself had multiple cities on it (like the list of all posts).  Bit of a pain given their setup, but would have been workable.

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I finished a mockup of a new theme last night.  I’m in the process of converting it to use for WordPress.  If you want to take a look at the general layout, head over to http://www.the-gatekeeper.net/misc/blackpress for a look. (A word of warning, it looks fine in FF, Chrome, Safari, and IE8, IE7 looks horrid.  I’m probably going to include some code in the final page that forces you to upgrade/use a different browser.  I just don’t like having to code for IE7 and earlier.)

It’s not my overall design.  I was following along on a tutorial for making it in Photoshop.  About the only thing I’ve really done differently is color and a bit of positioning.  But it’s really good, because there were a lot of elements in there that I had no clue how to make, and it’s helped me get my Ps skills better.

If you can’t tell, I tend to favor clean and somewhat “minimal” design looks.