TopTut.com has crawled into a new skin

Yes, those of you who visit my blog on a daily basis must have noticed that the site is now using a new theme, fully designed by me. Also, I want to apologize for inconvenience you might have experienced yesterday due to upgrade to WordPress 2.2. It turned out that after the upgrade some things did not work properly, or rather not the way I planned so I fixed all th errors one by one without taking the blog offline, hence some pages were broken and displayed a bit wrong.

Anyway, now we are up-to-date on the new shining WP 2.2. It’s so much better than the older platform I used (never upgraded since December 2006) and to be honest more convenient and secure. The idea of making a new skin came spontaneously, as I heard the previous theme I was using, originally coded by th every talented Ghyslain Armand, was not compatible with 2.2. So it took me half a day to design a new theme that will be more or less in the same colors scheme, yet maybe a bit more clean and fast loading. I heard quite a few complains about the site loading slow, and even noticed it myself on T1 connection. Previous design was about 500kb while this theme is below 130kb, which means almost 3 times “lighter”. Also, it’s based on one .css file, unlike the previous theme that had to download 9 .css files in order to display the site properly. Coding of this theme is far cleaner and therefore will load properly in IE as well, so all the Internet Explorer users who used to think the design of toptut.com was crap can no longer say it (I hope…) because it displays properly in Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE 6+, on resolutions 1024*768, 1280*1024, 1400×1050 and 1600×1200 so if anyone notices a mishap or thinks something is not working, please, please, please let me know, I would really want to fix the problem, after all I only have one pair of eyes and you all, the visitors, have thousands.

So, I hope you like the new layout and will enjoy using this blog just as much as before.