Creattica Daily has gotten a pretty sweet makeover, not that it wasn’t already awesome. Collis (CEO of Envato) was itching to try out a new larger 1200px wide design, and one that will pretty much update and maintain itself without the need to post daily roundups or cost tons of cash since the site has not been very profitable. Don’t worry though, the Creative License comic will still be going strong for all who enjoy some good clean humor. As well, there will continue to be plenty of content to sink your teeth into, it will just be pulled from various sources around the web vs. manual submission.
SimplePie, Oh Yeah!
Yes, we are using the amazing SimplePie feed parser to aggregate feeds and give you fresh daily links, images, and even twitter updates with the ability to paginate all the content independently and at the same time. By “at the same time” I mean you can paginate one section and it will not loose the place of the other section. Just a little added bonus I thought might be good to have. Also, I opted to not use the WordPress plugin for SimplePie due to it’s restrictive feel, I needed to do some very customized code and the plugin was getting in the way.
I have to say that this was by far the most complex and interesting use of SimplePie I have ever created. Normally you would not use SimplePie to pull twitter updates because the RSS output is void of any links but with a little PHP string manipulation everything is working perfectly (I hope) and the main thing is we can paginate the updates; I’ve yet to see a JavaScript version that can paginate twitter forward and back.
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Some Final Words
Well, I hope you enjoy the new site and I am very interested to see if the new larger design is going to be a hit or not. Also, to clarify only 8% of the users who visit Creattica Daily have a screen that is not 1200px or above. So, this was the perfect place to test out this kind of design.
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Wonderful work. You did it once again and this time, something new. I really liked the idea of using 1200px width. Its interesting to hear only 8% of users are NOT using the 1200 or above screenwidth.
Kudos on the wonderful work.
Yeah, I don’t think Creattica Daily is a very good representation of the internet as a whole but when it comes to the design community most screens are larger than 1200px wide.
Mind asking what font is being used for the logo of creattica?
Hey !
I like websites you had worked on, wonderfull and sober webdesigns !
Were the stats you’re using for screen resolution, or browser size? I run 1920×1200, but I never have my browser wider than ~1000px, and certainly never full screen…
The stats are coming for Google Analytics.
Same here.
It was a choice made by Collis and I just built it, so don’t shoot the messenger. I personally browse full screen on a 1920×1200 so I think it’s fine, but that’s me. As well, the site is a testing ground to see if it’s going to be a new trend or not.
Please don’t consider this ’shotting the messenger’ but I have to say I think it’s too big.My resolution is more than big enough to cope with it but it’s a struggle to focus on anything on the page
I am having great fun with this website. I was about to send some graphics for business cards when twice now I have received a virus alert pop up. Does this mean anything or what? I would love to participate in Creattica, but I don’t want to give a virus the chance to crawl into my system.
I have no idea why you’re getting virus popups, the site does not have any viruses on it.
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