I have been tinkering with the idea of a professional redesign for some time now, I am capable of doing one myself but I’m too lazybusy! I think it would take me a lot longer than would be healthy anyway! so I am committed to spending up to 400 USD for a new design of FiddyP… You can help even if you’re not a designer yourself and get a $25 gift certificate to spend where you like!

I’ve seen quite a few designs that I like the look of so I thought I would share some with you and get some feedback!

My definite wants are:

• 3 columns
• 2.0 colours but not clinical
• unique sidebars that can be widget enabled
• incorporate my own 50p logo somewhere
• easy to read text
• a full 1024 wide theme, maybe with the main content resizable for bigger screens
• space for a promotion box or featured product
• all the files required for a 2.3 wordpress theme folder like 404.php and sitemap etc

This is the style of boxes that I like

Here’s a mocked up from an existing template in photoshop, the double span box on the top part of the sidebar should be repeated below the two widget enabled sidebars and a big footer to show other things like blogroll, archives etc. It looks like this:

A cross between the two would be perfect! What do you think? is my budget enough?

Here’s how you can help..

If you know a theme designer that does this type of thing, ask them to take a look at these two pictures and the needs of the site and give me a quote, either by commenting here or using the contact me page.

Get them to mention that you sent them here and if I go with that person, you get a 25USD gift certificate for an online store like Amazon or even one local to you.

It’s almost like a contest because you can get paid for participating even if it’s not you that does the designing! You’ll also get a chance to help out someone you know if they are a designer. I get a new site, they get paid and so do you. win win win

just some testing of AJAX here to see if I can grab a last post from an author url while the user is still on the page..it’s a prelude to me adding some AJAX functionality to commentluv, below is a test version of the comment form once the comment authors site has been entered and they go to the next form field, the ajax should call a php file to find the title of the authors last post and put it in the pink box.

now all I have to do is find a way to make an event listener for the actual comment form author url field without adjusting the comments.php file….

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