Syntagma Digital
Editor, John Evans

New Syntagma Design is Live

Posted in Allusionz, Content Platform, Syntagma on February 1st, 2007
By John Evans - leave a comment!

If you hadn’t noticed, you must be blind. Sorry, visually impaired.

The new Syntagma Digital design is up. This is the neutral template for sites that don’t fit snugly into one of our three network magazines. You can see an Allusionz template here.

We’ll be unrolling the Phi and LifeTimes themes tomorrow on some of the sites, and all the others in time.

Thanks to Thord Hedengren for a fantastic job. He really is a pro, not only technically, but in terms of design too.

More later.

16 Responses to “New Syntagma Design is Live”

  1. Or maybe they need to clear their cache? Ctrl+F5 usually does that, folks. :)

    Thanks for the kind words John. Can’t wait to hear what people think, and to see the various iterations for the three network magazine sites roll out.

    By TDH on February 1st, 2007 at 7:03 pm

  2. Absolutely, Thord. I can’t wait either. :-)

    By John Evans on February 1st, 2007 at 7:12 pm

  3. Neato! I haven’t even gotten to my Bloglines yet .. just following a link to the subscriber comment of an earlier post.

    Looks good! Although, this comment box grey is hiding my mouse pointer. Also, really like the punchy navy blue for Syntagma colors .. if you used it more, I certainly wouldn’t mind!

    By HART (1-800-HART) on February 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm

  4. Thanks, HART, much appreciated.

    Yes, we’ll fix the dark comment box. I’ve mentioned it to Thord.

    Glad you like it.

    By John Evans on February 1st, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  5. Wow! Looks really nice :-)

    By Cyndi L on February 2nd, 2007 at 12:34 am

  6. Looking good John and Thord,

    Hey John - it has a magazine layout feel … ;-)

    Same as Hart - the comment box grey is doing havoc to my mouse and my eyes. :-)

    By Martin Neumann on February 2nd, 2007 at 12:59 am

  7. Lovely!

    By Steve Newman on February 2nd, 2007 at 7:12 am

  8. Thanks, Cyndi. I’m glad at least one of you b5ers like it. :-)

    By John Evans on February 2nd, 2007 at 9:10 am

  9. Martin: We’re still tweaking it a bit and we’ll deal with some of the gripes — which are very few indeed. The main thing is we get it right before unrolling the templates over our 50 sites.

    By John Evans on February 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 am

  10. Thanks, Steve.

    By John Evans on February 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am

  11. Another b5er gives the new design a thumbs up! :)

    By Hsien Lei on February 2nd, 2007 at 11:08 am

  12. You can never have too many thumbs pointing skyward, Hsien. :-)

    By John Evans on February 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am

  13. The only thing that disappoints me about the design is that you’d think b5 wouldn’t congratulate you John. When has b5 ever held back praise of competitors?

    Either way, the new design’s very, very good. Can’t wait to see the network done :)

    By Jeremy Wright on February 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 pm

  14. Thanks, Jeremy. I was only teasing about b5. You know me. ;-)

    And thanks for the good wishes. I’m sure Thord will be delighted as well.

    We still have a few changes to make : centering the design on the screen, reducing the dark shade of the comment box, and fixing a couple of links in the footer. We’ll have all four of the templates ready today, but won’t seriously start rolling them out until Monday.

    Then the Syntagma concept will be visible to all and not just a twinkle in my eye.

    After that, the real hard work begins. :-)

    By John Evans on February 2nd, 2007 at 3:23 pm

  15. “After that, the real hard work begins. ”

    I know what that’s like. Good luck, and enjoy :)

    By Jeremy Wright on February 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm

  16. Not to worry Jeremy! I knew John was just yanking my chain :-D

    By Cyndi L on February 5th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

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