Making Capitol Hill Look Stylin’

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I had another excellent time working with my friend, Tyrone II at SEMTAN Media on the redesign for The Moderate Voice once again. The original concept was actually presented by one of the contributors to TMV (it’s quite a large blog!) and I took the idea and ran with it.

To really pick up on the new age of media, I chose vibrant blues to match bright blue sky. I used heavily contrasting colors to make things easy to read, and styled your basic “Arial” font to look like a totally different one! To really make the design “click” I used famfamfam’s AMAZING silk icons. (Check ‘em out!) I also created simple header 2 tags for the sidebar, so that Tyrone could throw in any sidebar headers he needed with out fussing around with lots of code.

The left sidebar displays the “meat” of the blog (dynamic page listing, login spot, author features, categories, blog roll) while the yellow (right) sidebar caters to the chunk of ads TMV has displayed. This really allows the reader to separate the two, and to migrate over to the ads only if they’re interested (while still pulling in some income for TMV!)

The code I set up allowed Tyrone to drop in quite a few different plugins as well. Take a look!