Hello everyone. My name is Ben. I am thefrogman on TWiT Army. If you have visited the site recently you probably noticed some enhancements to the theme and functionality. My design partner Mongo and I have been working on the more aesthetic aspects of laconica. We also tweaked some of the navigation, added threaded reply dropdowns, and if you click on avatars, you get the last ten posts from that user without leaving the page. We are planning to make our code available to the community, but we need a little time to polish it up a bit. If you want a peek of the unpolished code you can check out this index listing:
http://eyant.com/leo/bravo/ I realize that the TWiT Army theme is a bit propietary so I decided to work up some more generic mockups for possible themes that would work with our code. We will have to tweak the CSS a bit, and before we put too much work into it, I thought I'd see if you guys liked the direction I was heading. First I created a more Web 2.0 version of Identica. Rounded corners are "in" and you need to have glossy buttons. Glossy buttons are all the rage. http://is.gd/3Adi Next I modified that same theme to be more generic so that anyone can use it. Here are five color options below. Green http://is.gd/3AdC Brown http://is.gd/3AdE Gray http://is.gd/3AdJ Pink http://is.gd/3AdL Teal http://is.gd/3AdP I also have a more bold theme I created that I can probably also make in a variety of colors if the interest is there. http://is.gd/3Aeb I'm a little burnt out from working on the TWiT Army site, so it may take me a couple of weeks to get these in easy to install tarball form. I mainly wanted to introduce myself and let you all in on my evil theming plans. Aesthetics are important. I know a lot of you code guys tend to think of that last, but I think this thing is getting to the point where we need to start considering theming a bit more. Myspace being ugly and successful was a fluke. They lured people in with glitter graphics and popularity contests. Modifying the code for our theme was tough on Mongo. We will have some suggestions that will hopefully make it easier for designers in the future to do their thing. I think this laconica thing could be big, and I hope to make it a little prettier. Have a good day everyone. Ben (thefrogman)
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