Typo Theme Contest: Origami Theme

Origami Theme

Geoffrey Grosenbach — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:23:00 -0600

Leevi Graham has spent a lot of time on Origami. Check it out.

3 layout preferences (fixed, fluid and jello).
3 font-size preference (medium, large and extra large).
2 font rendering preferences (rendered Trade Gothic, non-rendered system Helvetica).
2 menu position preferences (left and right).

Send your themes to boss [AT] topfunky [dot] com until midnight on November 28 (using your current time at wherever you are in the world). A link to your compressed theme is preferred, which will allow you to update your theme without re-sending it to me.

"Origami Theme" by Mark Davies

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 06:06:47 -0600

no surprises here – just the usual Leevi Graham CSS genius at work. At ease gentlemen.

"Origami Theme" by leevi graham

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:55:40 -0600

what theme is perfect … he he he :)

"Origami Theme" by Marco

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:21:53 -0600

Eric, You may very well be right. I mentioned this too when I was talking to Leevi. After the spectacular top section something is ‘missing’. What that is though, we don’t know.

Still: This is definitely one of the very best entries in this contest. But I’m sure most of us will agree here.

"Origami Theme" by Leevi Graham

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:09:11 -0600

Hey Guys,

I have listened to all your demands about CPU speed and sIFR and acted on them. You can now download a sIFR free version of origami @ http://typo2.leevigraham.com/ . This theme is faster, and has the sIFR options removed from the titles.

Enjoy.

"Origami Theme" by Jason Morrison

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:52:16 -0600

this is sex-ay!

"Origami Theme" by Leevi Graham

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:10:04 -0600

Hi Ezra,

Are you using a trunk version.. If not try and download the theme again. It should be ok..

Cheers Leevi

"Origami Theme" by Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 01:10:21 -0600

I love this theme Levi! I am using it on my blog right now. One problem though, The little buttons at the very top for help or to change the type size or layout do not work. Evey single one of them throws you to a javascript-error page. Take a look: http://brainspl.at Is there any way to turn those off or make them work somehow?

"Origami Theme" by Eric

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:52:58 -0600

I agree with everyone that your theme is AWESOME, but only as a web developer.

As a user I think it’s way too busy. How many real web users really care about all the cool tricks he’s packed into the theme, or even understand half of it? All they care about is the content and design.

Other than the header there isn’t a lot of seperation between different section (just a thin line). It makes it easy for my eyes to stray over to the big headers in the navigation away from the content.

The design itself is ok, but far from anything special or unique. Once you scroll past the page header it’s all pretty boring. There is nothing that makes me say “wow”.

This theme reminds of the difference between yahoo and google. Yahoo is a great site with lots of features, but in the end all people really want to do is search. Features are great, but Google proved that simple can be powerful.

Still a great entry. I just don’t think it deserves all of this fawning from the web development community.

"Origami Theme" by gg

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:15:43 -0600

Just awesome…. expect your IBook soon ;)

"Origami Theme" by Brian

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:07:19 -0600

Amazing. Love the Live Search functionality with the pull-down box.

"Origami Theme" by tiago

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:22:35 -0600

forgot christinho… heeheh very very very nice and good theme … I lost my powerbook , crap heehhehehe

"Origami Theme" by Leevi Graham

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:17:25 -0600

Jan:

You can find out more about sIFR by looking at the sIFR documentation found here: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ Also if you want i can create a new .swf file for you that includes special characters

Cheers Leevi

"Origami Theme" by Martin May

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:49:24 -0600

This is my favorite. You deserve the grand prize!

"Origami Theme" by smerickson

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:40:43 -0600

And we have a winner. . . Outstanding work!

"Origami Theme" by Marco

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:18:50 -0600

That can be fixed by telling Flash to include accented characters when saving the font’s swf file from the sIFR base template.

"Origami Theme" by Jan Prill

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:06:54 -0600

Definitly one of my favorites. For me, as I’m blogging in my native language it has one downside though: Special characters like german umlauts (ü, ä, ö) won’t make it into headlines. Are these translated to images by rmagick or anything like this? Maybe I need to have a look at the readme…

regards Jan

"Origami Theme" by domosapien

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:25:55 -0600

I’ve never heard anyone complain that a design is inferior because their computer is slow. (Bandwidth is different)

Leevi, you did excellent work and are a champ to take the silly criticism.

"Origami Theme" by Marco

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:40:46 -0600

My advice would be to use sIFR only for the main titles and the sidebar titles and no lower level headings. More than 8 or so sIFR headings on a site makes things slow on lower spec computers, especially when they’re macs.

"Origami Theme" by Leevi Graham

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:39:02 -0600

Hi all, thanks for your comments so far they will help improve the design as a whole. After the comp, or before if im allowed and it is ok’d by all you guys I would like to remove the sifr headlines for H4 and below. This should speed the theme up alot and improve overall preformance. I think its best for the contest overall and will not drastically change my entry.. What does everyone think? Is it ok with you guys?

"Origami Theme" by Marco

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:54:07 -0600

Another note on the slowdown:

My own weblog also takes 6% cpu usage on my machine which is rather high.

My advice to Leevi would be to cut down the amount of sIFR headers. If you have to many it gets slow. You could for example eliminate the ones in the sidebar and replace those with normal ones maybe.

"Origami Theme" by Joh_Paar

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:38:28 -0600

It’s a great design, very well laid out, harmonizing colors, though it seems a bit heavy in two ways. First one is, that scrolling isn’t smooth compared for example to the typogarden site and the loading time has already been discussed. And second is, that personally I think there are too many functions at first sight, it’s not too easy to focus on the content. It might be better to hide the advanced functions behind a very basic and reduced interface and allow it to be switched to “pro” or “advanced” mode.

"Origami Theme" by Claudio

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:32:25 -0600

Very cool theme, thank you :-)

"Origami Theme" by Marco

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:05:14 -0600

There’s absolutely no problem with Safari here. But then again I have a dual 2.7Ghz machine which may ehm.. help.

What I do know is that even with version 8, flash is still kinda slow and a CPU hog on Mac OS X. I get around 5% cpu here which is still a lot on this machine.

Disabling sIFR reduces it to around 1 or 2% so I guess we’ve got the culprit. Like I told you on MSN, there may be just a tad too many sIFR headlines in it.

Other than that: I’ve told you on MSN and I’ll say it here as well: If I have to beaten by someone it better be you. Your theme kicks ass and I know you’ve worked on it just as hard as I did on mine. Therefore you’re definitely one of those who really deserves to win.

May the best theme win!

"Origami Theme" by Tristan Dunn

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:03:03 -0600

Such an excellent theme. I’m glad I didn’t enter now. Not that I would have beat it, but I would have felt bad if I did. You deserve to win.

"Origami Theme" by Leevi Graham

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:59:48 -0600

Sebastian,

Any ideas why this would be occuring? It seems to run fine on my pc. Do you think turning the sIFR off by default maybe a good idea…