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It's Raining Outside

December 18, 2009

rainingoutside

Design

Graphics, Colors & Fonts: 5/20 points

The graphics are super in-your-face, which isn't always a bad thing. In this case, though, the background pattern is way too intense and distracting. It absolutely detracts from the content of the site which should be the primary focus. As always, I love Century Gothic, but it seems out of place here. Be careful when designing your templates that you don't fall into the very common trap of "I put it there because I liked it." A powerful design needs more than that, it needs

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Grungy

June 20, 2009

grungy

Design

Graphics, Colors & Fonts: 5/20 points

Century Gothic is my hands down favorite font, but I have a feeling you really pulled a lot of inspiration from the very similar "cold" template by whistleonwild, and the font wasn't a deliberate choice for this template, so much as a left over piece of the cold template.

The background patterns are exactly that – repeating patterns, detracting from the intended "gruge" feel. For a proper grunge template, there should be

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May 3, 2009

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Black Tie by cutething

May 2, 2009

screen

A black and white WordPress theme. By cutething.

This is just some text to fill up the space here. Maybe a description of the text, or a first-impression explanation and score? Hmm.

We'll see :)

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