Second version of
Little Dessert
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Design and coding of WordPress theme for Jennifer Lindberg’s blog about pastries.
This is a new and improved version of the blog I designed before, Little Dessert v1. It was time for a renewal of the design, and to make the blog even stronger we got an own domain for it and switched to WordPress as CMS instead of the blog network Blogg.se.
The design is still supposed to give a little home made feeling through the background, but it is now a lot more clean and simple. Instead of locking the content inside a box, everything floats on the background, but controlled through a grid used in the design process. I wanted to emphasize the categories in this design, to make it simple to find recipes of different kinds. This was done by using a small square photo as a background for the category link, and place the categories two in a row as squares in the sidebar.
Since many of the blog posts are recipes, I added a feature where she can write ingredients and get them formatted as a notepad in the blog post. This makes it easier to see what you need to follow the recipe, than if you would just write it as normal text in the blog post.
There are a few different ways of finding posts. You can navigate through the posts on the front page, but sometimes that is not the easiest way. The categories help sometimes, but for some posts that could be hard too. The site offers a search box in the header that can search for all the post content. If you want to find a post by specifying some parameters, you can use the archive. It allows you to choose year, month and category as filters and also the view mode (full posts or excerpts). The results update automatically through AJAX when options are changed, which makes it easy to navigate.
The site uses some CSS3 things like @font-face, border-radius and box-shadow, but is only used to enhance the site for browsers that support it.
She also uses Twitter for this blog (@LittleDessert) and the latest tweet is always shown in the header of the site. The blog has grown in popularity lately and is at the time of writing having around 200 visitors per day.
