April 12, 2006

Extreme Makeover: Text Link Ads Edition 8

Yo! Have you checked out the Thesis Theme yet? I’d love to explain how optimized, detailed, and easily-customizable Thesis is, but honestly, I know that you’re going to benefit the most from the amazing community of theme users. Smart people offering up tailored solutions to common theme problems? Now that’s serious value.

Yesterday, Patrick and the team at Text Link Ads quietly unveiled my newest creation. Given that I worked on the site for a solid month, it was extremely nice to finally see the work come together in a finished product. Without a doubt, this was the largest, most diverse site that I’ve worked on, and I’ve got a stylesheet 10 miles long to prove it!

It was an honor to even be considered for the job, and I’m extremely grateful for the chance to work with Text Link Ads on their new site. The crew over there is not only professional, but just flat out cool to boot.

As far as design stuff goes, I really tried to create a unique brand for TLA. I think the new site has a look and feel that definitely identify it as “soooo 2006,” and I hope that all you out there will agree that it’s got a progressive nature about it. Although I hate the term, I honestly believe that TLA now not only acts the part of “Web 2.0″ but looks it as well.

As always, I’d appreciate any feedback you could provide, be it positive or negative. Oh, and one of these days I’ll actually construct a portfolio where information like this will ultimately reside, along with design notes that will be far more detailed and revealing than what you’ve just read.

8 Comments ↓

#Martin  at 7:28 am on Apr 12, 2006

Chris … all past snarky fun aside, you’re a great desinger and I like what you’ve done.

I like the simplistic, big, bold colors that seem central to your work.

btw, what sort of prices are you asking for to design a WP theme - I know every job is unique but just a ballpark figure for a fairly basic design woud do.

Cheers,
Martin

ps: when the heck are you gonna indie virus me ;-)

#Aaron Brazell  at 8:17 am on Apr 12, 2006

Really… very sexy

#Jesse  at 9:04 am on Apr 12, 2006

Nicely done. It’s got your “feel” to it, but it’s still fairly unique.

#Patrick Gavin  at 9:13 am on Apr 12, 2006

Chris, it was a pleasure working with you on this project and we are getting great feedback from our users on the new design, thx again!

#Mike  at 9:15 am on Apr 12, 2006

Damn fine work.

Can you get me a massive contract with them ? I need to sell some ads on the 4,980,000 pages we had viewed last year.

Seriously, you are getting even better and you were already great !

#Technosailor  at 9:21 am on Apr 12, 2006

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#Dennis Bullock  at 9:23 am on Apr 12, 2006

Great Work Chris!

It always feels good when a large project comes to an end with a success. The site looks great. I like the use of color and whitespace.

#Praveen  at 12:01 pm on Apr 13, 2006

Very nice design :)

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