The new liquidicity
James Gill / July 18, 2007

Here it is: the completely redesigned liquidicity.
You may be thinking “hey this is great – a new liquidicity”, but what did the old one look like? Well, here’s a little comparison for you:

Above, you can see the fairly bland, pale looking design. Sure it was simple, but it didn’t look that great, and some things were a little odd to use.
And here’s the shiny new liquidicity:

Above is the lovely new theme. We went for a darker look to emphasize the difference between content and everything else. The sidebar has been cleaned up to the extreme with some sexy script.aculo.us effects to show our categories and archive lists without taking up tons of page space.
We also got rid of the dreaded of all dreaded design nightmares – Google Adsense. What more can we say other than Pheeeeeeeew.
It’s also a lot easier to see and munch on our feed – bright orangey red – you can’t miss it!
We didn’t forget about the rest of the page, either – so we made a whole load of improvements to the bottom of the page, just look the difference:

Above, the old, boring, grey footer: nothing much really.
And our lovely new page footer:

All the links you could need to the rest of the site, and a lovely little divider line. Rounds of the page nicely.
We hope you enjoy the design as much as we enjoyed… celebrating its completion.
* There’s still a few little loose ends to tie up – especially working with that browser a few people use, what was it called again… Internet Explorer, or something.





rob said,
July 18, 2007 at 01:48 ()
really clean interface - i'm lovin it!
Chad Edge said,
July 18, 2007 at 02:37 ()
Fantastic - jealousy sets in. I wish I could get [one of my sites] to look this clean.
jayhan said,
July 18, 2007 at 03:54 ()
wow, looks better! Archives and Category sidebar is cool, perhaps u can teach us how u do it thanks :D
and maybe u can tweak the top hr bar to what at the footer. I can see some Apple influence here haha.
Keep up!
Sven said,
July 20, 2007 at 06:50 ()
Just - wow! Inpiration this is. Great work! Just one remark: in "longer" pages the bottom divider looks a bit "out of sync" as only the white content part stretches to the bottom. Footers are one of the most difficult design situations ;-)
Takayuki said,
November 18, 2007 at 09:50 ()
Great Design!! and the small smiley under the copyright. lol!!