July 4, 2006

Deviant Irony

Welcome to Deviant Irony, a fresh theme designed to facilitate a new and invigorating transformation. What you now see here has been brought to you by Jeroen Mulder and me. I supplied the vision, while Jeroen delivered the underlying XHTML and CSS, save for a few minor adjustments.

Today marks a turning point. One in which a silent warrior, engaged in a battle not heretofore known to many, wielding an untamed force, shifts the bowels of mercy not upon thee. Precisely measured movements, crafted to establish a pristine presentation, saunter silently through the unseen.

After roughly 7 months in to the Year of The Dog, it is time for a change. I thoroughly enjoyed my simplistic monotone modifications to K2. The design was easy on the eyes, and straightforward in presentation. K2 is an exceptional building block theme, which offers some incomparable features and wonderful community support. It is a rock solid core foundation theme that serves a much needed purpose, though one that I am no longer using.

The main purpose behind Year of The Dog was to place emphasis on Asides, which allowed me to focus energy elsewhere in order to facilitate simple posts. K2 offers the ability to be customized merely by playing with CSS. This approach allows for trouble-free personalization, while employing the well established K2 core to power the theme.

Deviant Irony has changed all of this, as it has been built from the ground up. The only remaining part of K2 that remains evident is the commenting form. Everything else, from the kitchen sink to the clever use of AJAX, has been amputated.

To build this lovely looking theme I enlisted the help of an old friend: Photoshop. The entire basic design was mocked up in Photoshop. Once complete, I sent it over to Jeroen to work some XHTML and CSS PFM (pure fucking magic). After some minor revisions to his initial offering, I carved it up in to a Wordpress theme. We worked on a few more trivial additions until the beginning of this past week, when things came to a halt because of real life.

This morning I woke up with the intent to complete the final adjustments. After rearranging a few key components of the entry page, I decided that my work was done for now. It is time to test my sense of Deviant Irony in the real world.

Deviant Irony Beta is now alive, for all to see in its glory and splendor. I can not thank Jeroen enough. His brilliant design skills have allowed this vision to be born and seen through fruition.

The name, Deviant Irony, is an obscure reference to events past. That which was so mysteriously pilfered from under my nose shall be restored by way of methods unexpected.

I look forward to any constructive criticism on the entire production. There are still some rough edges, but overall the stage is set. Please report any errors and/or observations, so that I can endeavor to reconcile them.

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38 Comments on “Deviant Irony”

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1 Mom/Lorri M Jul 4th, 2006, at 22:47:14

Oh my!!! Email me, please…don’t leave your mother in a state of wonder. LOL

Great theme, so clean, pristine and refreshing, I love it…wonderful tones and easy on the eyes…so perfect…I adore it! Fantastic work!! A terrific first step…I can’t wait for more…

Great job to Jeroen Mulder, also!!

2 Ben Jul 4th, 2006, at 23:19:48

Why does this remind me slightly of something I’ve seen somewhere else, mang? ;)

Looking good, for sures. Jeroen is a fucking hero when it comes to code.

3 Levi Jul 4th, 2006, at 23:29:05

I see no likeness what-so-ever.

Haha, looks good mate. I like it.

Though in the comment form area there’s two horizontal bars behind the Name, Email, Website fields. Not sure what it’s for or if it should be there.

Now post more!

4 Levi Jul 4th, 2006, at 23:30:59

Woops, filled my email field in wrong. Any chance this comment can be deleted and my email on the previous fixed? I want my Gravatar!

5 Adam Jul 4th, 2006, at 23:36:55

Very nice. Relaxing and clean. At first, I wasn’t too sure about whether triSexuality would work for me but it slowly growing. This has taken it a step further.

You should try out a dA theme. That’d be neat.

6 Onie Jul 4th, 2006, at 23:49:06

Nice, simple and straightforward. The color scheme isn’t too bad, but I do see some interesting horizonal lines down here in the Write a Comment section.

I like this theme very much, and whatever you’ve got planned, m’friend, count me in. I’ll be there in a heartbeat. :)

7 Levi Jul 5th, 2006, at 00:05:31

You’re going to hate me for all these superfluous comments.

But yeah on the ‘Links’ page at the bottom there’s a bug were the border is showing around the Subscribe Images at the bottom right.

Other than that, everything seems perfect.

8 charles Jul 5th, 2006, at 02:16:14

well it looks a belter so far!! :-)

9 Nate Jul 5th, 2006, at 02:26:33

Clean and simplistic, very well done.

10 Alex Jul 5th, 2006, at 03:14:02

Looking really great Scott. Loving the tweaks to K2, I really enjoy working with that theme.

11 Mizillian Jul 5th, 2006, at 04:07:18

Would somebody explain to me what’s going on here? I’d appreciate any of you to hit me up on AIM at GazibBegins. Is this a new deviantART?

12 Jeroen Mulder Jul 5th, 2006, at 04:39:02

You’re welcome Scott. I enjoyed working on it quite a lot, actually. However, if I remember correctly, there are still some things I need to do. Real life stuff really kicked me in the groin in that respect, I guess… ;-)

13 Alan Jul 5th, 2006, at 05:53:57

Looking good, man. Greyscale is king.

14 Leesy Jul 5th, 2006, at 07:08:42

I like it too Scott. Nice use of font, simple but effective. The icons look good too (Silk?). I can only see a couple of tiny bugs. Sorry if you know about them already.

The gravatars aren’t working. In Firefox we get the alt text of the Gravatar written over the comment image number.
In IE, the subscribe RSS icons are trimmed off at the bottom slightly.
I’d personally like to see a little left padding in the search box

The new design gets a thumbs up from me :)

15 John-Le-Fucker Jul 5th, 2006, at 07:57:08

(:

16 shelly Jul 5th, 2006, at 08:11:32

hee! :D

you clever fellas, you.

17 Mom/Lorri M Jul 5th, 2006, at 08:24:01

Great work on this Jeroen Mulder! :)

18 Scott Jul 5th, 2006, at 08:28:35

Looks like Gravatar is down for maintenance. When I published this entry they were working just fine. Not entirely sure why the default is not showing. Will have to check it out when I get home tonight.

Thanks for all the kind words thus far.

19 j2 Jul 5th, 2006, at 09:06:27

I love it, but I kinda miss Trisexuality.

(deviant irony loves you)

20 Miksago Jul 5th, 2006, at 10:45:28

hmmmm…. is it just me, or does this design using the same colour theme as dAv5?

21 Jason Jul 5th, 2006, at 13:33:59

Who gives a shit. Go die already.

22 Chris Schaffer Jul 5th, 2006, at 13:41:29

So far the new layout is very clean and impressive.
Just very easy on the eye and navigation

23 Frances Jul 5th, 2006, at 16:43:30

JM always has his uses, eh?

I like it. :)

24 catluvr2 Jul 5th, 2006, at 22:00:53

I like it. :+fav:

25 Elle Jul 6th, 2006, at 02:06:11

Aw, Jark. I really hope everything will eventually settle down, and in your favour!

26 opticnerve Jul 7th, 2006, at 01:56:53

superkalifuckinglisticexpialiawesome

I see some weird bar line thinies behind the submit form.
makes my right retina shift uncomfortably.

Other than that, a credit to PFM!

ON

27 Stephen Jul 9th, 2006, at 18:24:33

Very nice and clean, good job.

JM is the man! :-)

28 Andrew Jul 11th, 2006, at 17:47:37

Looks fantastic!

Contrast in all the right places and smoothness elsewhere.
No superfluous info either, I always found trisexual hot but overkill and your last layout not-so-smooth. This one really does it for me :)

29 David Aug 14th, 2006, at 14:50:07

Looks awesome Scott!
I’m speechless…

30 Tim Knapp Aug 22nd, 2006, at 19:15:11

Hello Scott, my name is Tim Knapp and I am a Japanese-speaking web developer based in New Zealand and have been reading your blog for some time now (think I’ve commented before too). Just curious, I have seen the blog icons your website before (and possibly read about them on this site too) and was wondering if you could point me in the direction of where I can find them?

Thanks,
Tim

31 Reaper-X Sep 22nd, 2006, at 07:50:21

Congrats on your design change. As for the name, im sure plenty of us know what you’re talking about. I just have this to say, Scott.

To the Deicide.

32 Google Success Oct 10th, 2006, at 16:19:11

Greetings from Tokyo !!
That’s a very cool theme. I’d like to know if it is available for downlaod. Thanks !

33 Scott Oct 10th, 2006, at 20:03:11

Hello Mr. Google Success,

Unfortunately, the theme is not currently available for download. I am not entirely certain that I will make it available, as that decision has not yet been made. :-)

Rest assured, that if I do change my mind, you will see the news about the theme’s release right here on this site first!

34 你好,上帝 Feb 3rd, 2007, at 03:51:15

这个不错的..
下了

35 defacedlawngnome Feb 26th, 2007, at 21:43:51

the grey bars behind name, email and website are for organizational appearance, people. very nice site, mister alien. i look forward to what you’ll be producing in the future :)

36 Saber Aug 4th, 2007, at 03:54:37

i am still kinda puzzled y u left Deviant art, i know this is now old but i stikll want to know WHY you had to leave something you helped to start

I feel this is what they did to Steve Jobs a while ago but now im glad he is back. Have you considered 1 trying to getu back to Deviant Art or 2 Starting a Deviant Art Spinoff website

37 Melissah Oct 30th, 2007, at 02:14:30

this is so fucking funny, just thought you should know.

im actually quite afraid of what deviantart may become…sad times. havent been there from the beginning, just about 2003 though.

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