New design for Gaya Design

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Yesterday I finally launched my new layout for the world to see! There are even new things to be done on the site now.

After about a month of hard work it’s done, ready to be shown in public.

newlayout

I wanted to go for a retro, colourful and playful layout. With these things in mind I got working on an idea of the layout. I really like out of the box and semi 3D effects in web designs, looks different and so simple at the same time.

That’s why this layout looks like it does right now. After a few weeks of designing, coding the layout, designing again and coding again it was time to put the layout to the test. I got a lot of feedback from you guys and I am very thankful for that! You guys seriously rock!

A few things about the new design:

  • Advertisement spots are now available.
  • Chimneys on the roof that are smoking.
  • Oh, try and pick the chimneys up!
  • A few jQuery effects to give power to the design.
  • Tabbed content in the sidebar to see my top reads.
  • E-mail subscription on Feedburner.
  • Some navigational and page changes.

Thanks to everyone on Twitter too! You guys are amazing and gave me a lot of feedback! Thanks again!

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28 Comments

  1. Marco said: May 12, 2009 at 10:00 am | Permalink

    Sweet Gaya! Really love your new (and especially: fun!) layout.

    Keep up the great work mate :) !


  2. Sieb said: May 12, 2009 at 10:06 am | Permalink

    Great work comrad!


  3. Mevrouw Mikmak said: May 12, 2009 at 10:08 am | Permalink

    Ziet er goed uit. Mijn complimenten!


  4. D. said: May 12, 2009 at 10:11 am | Permalink

    Wow, this is great! Nice work.


  5. Jun said: May 12, 2009 at 10:24 am | Permalink

    pleasantly surprised by the moving chimneys! really nice design!


  6. Gaya said: May 12, 2009 at 10:36 am | Permalink

    Thanks for all the nice comments people! You guys rock!


  7. saurabh shah said: May 12, 2009 at 10:52 am | Permalink

    Wow ! Nice design…. looks amazing … keep rocking !


  8. Rich97 said: May 12, 2009 at 10:52 am | Permalink

    Hey Gaya, Love the new design, original, clean and playful. Exactly the sort of design I’d like to see more of. I’m pretty sick of these monochrome “elegant” sites. Looks so much better once you put it into HTML too, never quite understood that. The header animations are just the icing on the cake. :)

    Quick bug report, one of the chimneys starts in the wrong place on Webkit browsers. :)


  9. Stuart Olds said: May 12, 2009 at 11:00 am | Permalink

    Cripes this is looking good, congrats on the excellent design work!


  10. Gaya said: May 12, 2009 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    Thanks guys!

    @Rich: seems that Chrome is not fully jQuery compatible. Fixed it ;)


  11. Matej Grabovský said: May 12, 2009 at 1:11 pm | Permalink

    It looks pretty good, I really like it. The idea with the chimneys is indeed very original and well done.

    To be also honest and also critic I don’t much like some of the color combinations but that’s just me.

    Anyway the rest is really well done, good work!


  12. JohnONolan said: May 12, 2009 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

    Love it mate, very very cool!


  13. Valerie Babin said: May 12, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

    Love it!
    Oops, dropped the chimney :o


  14. Daniel said: May 12, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Permalink

    wow, great work! it came out really nice when you coded it! i love that you can throw the chimenys over the edge :D


  15. Nikki said: May 12, 2009 at 3:55 pm | Permalink

    Wow, this is really unique and beautiful! You’ve found a whole new to bring the page alive and have it look like it’s actually coming out of the browser. I love it!


  16. Mr. Oliveras said: May 12, 2009 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

    Ohhh baby, it really rocks! Keep up the good work.


  17. robby said: May 12, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

    Love it Gaya! Website interaction at it’s best, I’d love to see more websites with some fun mini games over the page (pacman anyone? XD) ! Anyways, congrats on the redesign and keep up the great work.


  18. Brent Galloway said: May 12, 2009 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

    Love the new design! Not to mention the dragable buildings at the top!


  19. Gaya said: May 13, 2009 at 8:28 am | Permalink

    Thanks for all the nice comments!
    I really like details you are noticing.
    Thanks people!


  20. max said: May 14, 2009 at 7:53 am | Permalink

    Great,nice design.


  21. Ivan Pidov said: May 14, 2009 at 2:25 pm | Permalink

    Yep, the design is really cool. Great work!
    But I think you can work a bit more on the grass ;P


  22. neki chan said: May 20, 2009 at 6:17 am | Permalink

    OMG!!! cool!!! really colorful!
    i ♥ this layout…


  23. Gaya said: May 20, 2009 at 7:33 am | Permalink

    Thanks for all the cool comments :)
    Will be working on the footer :D have some special plans for it!


  24. Meshach said: May 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

    @Gaya:

    I’m the guy that said the 3d effect looks bizarre… I like it now though so I guess it just looked that way in the preview.

    Great work! :)


  25. Gaya said: May 26, 2009 at 4:11 pm | Permalink

    Glad you like it now dude :) The preview had some different angles too.

    Thanks buddy.


  26. koffiekitten said: July 3, 2009 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

    Love the colour scheme!


  27. BEBEN said: October 8, 2009 at 12:32 am | Permalink

    jadi pengen…xixixiixix ^,^


  28. BEBEN said: October 8, 2009 at 12:36 am | Permalink

    by the way … the right corner near the writing sponsors, … what’s behind such contrived?


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