Design Disease - Blog Design http://designdisease.com Design Disease provides cost-effective Web design services focused on usability, accessibility and Web standards. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:49:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Sky, Land and water http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/designdisease/xKgB/~3/332220150/ http://designdisease.com/blog/sky-land-and-water/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:45:27 +0000 Elena http://designdisease.com/?p=108 Sky, Land and Water, this is Design Disease’s new face. I have been working on this new face for about 3 months. Finally, after I tried many different forms and fonts, I came up with this underwater world.

I have also made some domain blog changes. My original URL for the blog was on another address and now it is inside of the original domain and with a single design.

After my last post, I have learned what my weakest points are (marketing, communication, language barrier,) and I hope in the near future to see some improvements. Even though I felt undermarketed, I still did a few major projects, like blogflux.com, minnesota.com, ibegin…and so on.

Regarding what some of you might be interested, free wordpress themes, I have some projects with some friends and partners, but those will be public when the time is right. Just a hint, the next 2 themes will be called “Albeo” and “Fervens”.

I need to apologize to those who post comments on this blog and haven’t got an answer. I promise I will be more watchful from now on.

Enjoy this new design.

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/sky-land-and-water/feed/ http://designdisease.com/blog/sky-land-and-water/ Design Disease new look http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/designdisease/xKgB/~3/326715057/ http://designdisease.com/news/design-disease-new-look/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:13:23 +0000 Elena generous layout redesign clients approach worked months logo http://designdisease.com/?p=106 After many months we’ve worked for our generous clients we made some time for us and redesign our site. You can see a new logo, new layout design and a new approach.

]]> http://designdisease.com/news/design-disease-new-look/feed/ http://designdisease.com/news/design-disease-new-look/ I am not marketed enough http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/designdisease/xKgB/~3/326715059/ http://designdisease.com/blog/i-am-not-marketed-enough/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:40:02 +0000 Elena mont http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2008/01/11/i-am-not-marketed-enough/ For the last few months I discovered my weakest point and that is communication through this blog. Not being a native English speaker moved all my attention to design and design only. I thought this is enough but it isn’t so and this is my conclusion …I am not marketed enough (See other Blog Designers) …and this is all my fault.

Are you agree with me on this? Should I start selling Premium Themes? I would like to know what do you think about my work and if you theme lovers have any advices for me.

Here is my report for 2007.

  • InSense | 11th Oct 2007 | 2634 Downloads
  • Gossip City | 11th Oct 2007 | 5642 Downloads
  • Smashing Theme | 19th Oct 2007 | 2268 Downloads
  • Illacrimo | 5th Nov 2007 | 3572 Downloads
  • Christmas Days | 12th Nov 2007 | 4137 Downloads
  • Dilectio | 9th Dec 2007 | 6297 Downloads
  • More then 25 Unique Blog Designs for my clients and many more.

Just that.

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“Over the last year Elena, the creative mind behind Design Disease team, has designed a number of free WordPress themes, as the Smashing WordPress Theme we released as a present for our readers during our One-Year-Anniversary in September’07. Afterwards we’ve contacted Elena and asked if it’s possible to design another Wordpress theme for our readers. Elena agreed.

After we’ve discussed the details of the design and the main aims we wanted to achieve, Elena started to do her magic. The result is a fresh, clean, user-friendly and playful Wordpress theme “Dilectio” — a smashing Christmas present for Smashing Magazine readers.”

Dilectio Wordpress Theme

Update 12.01.2007This theme is availble also in :

and also a version for Blogger (Thank you Francisco)

Update July 04, 2008

]]> http://designdisease.com/blog/dilectio-wordpress-theme/feed/ http://designdisease.com/blog/dilectio-wordpress-theme/ 5 steps to something that will sell http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/designdisease/xKgB/~3/326715063/ http://designdisease.com/blog/5-steps-to-something-that-will-sell/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:18:43 +0000 Elena sites steps focus like” “best subjects decided seller http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/12/03/5-steps-to-something-that-will-sell/ Quite often, I see large, big titles such as: “10 Steps towards improving your blog’s design” or “5 Simple steps towards an astounding blog design”, or others alike.

I don’t really mind the title as much as I mind the simplicity tackled by some when treating this subject. I think that those who use these “best-seller like” titles should rather focus on the design of their own blog sites since, in most cases, these sites have an awful design.

Moreover, when receiving advices from such people, whose web sites have been erroneously designed, one begins to wonder if or why those precious advices have not been already implemented into the sites promoting them.

Initially being attracted by the large, “best-seller like” title, you discover at a later date that the web site’s owner, a self-proclaimed “theme guru designer”, also provides a “Premium Themes” offer, inconveniently crowded and displayed in the sidebar. Well, well. Isn’t this my lucky day? I reckon that this site has everything I need in order to start designing my blogs just like a theme guru designer.

On the same subject, I remember that once I began debating on the subject of sponsored themes, those who nowadays promote their Premium themes started pointing their finger at me, while instantly assuming the position of saints and mighty defenders of the WordPress blogging platform.

Oh, and let’s not even get into the concept of “Premium” service, product or whatever. Such a concept reminds me of the days when web hosting providers used to sort their offer into: Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Premium. Now that’s boring and utterly with no personality!

So far, I had decided not to express online my opinions and approach on certain subjects. However, I’ve decided to break the silence and focus on the WordPress themes I’m designing or have designed, as well as on some general — or more detailed — subjects, such as the one displayed above.

TaTa

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