Opera News Fall Design

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Ook! Let's see if this works. When visiting this page today you might have seen it in varying degrees of disrepair. That wasn't Opera News' being invaded again by the server monkeys but its being invaded by me with a new Opera News design. Both the monkeys and I "ook" a lot, so it is hard to tell the difference. monkey banana no



It's fall now, and well... it's not showing it yet here in Louisiana, being 33°C (88°F). However, in Norway I'm sure it's bone chillingly cold already and the leaves are ready to fall off the trees, so here's a blog design that reflects the beautiful colors we find during the autumn time of the year even if the designer himself is still waiting to see some nice leaves. I'm a sometimes employee of Opera, and I was contacted to do another design for Opera News. My instructions were to do something simpler, and I jumped at the chance to do something less busy. This design's by far my favorite of the bunch. The design mostly just uses a single color palette and uses just those colors throughout the page. It should also resize to fit the device you're working on, so if you're out and about in the park watching the kids play in the leaves (or jumping right in there with them yourself! yes ) you can visit Opera News with Opera Mini and be able to read the latest posts about fish, potatoes, fjords, moose, and occasional ramblings about this great browser called Opera. heart

I've also taken the time to make sure the design works well on the photo albums page, so if you're wanting to look through the albums you can go to the photo albums link on the page in the sidebar or at the bottom of the page if you're using a device with smaller screen space. I hope you enjoy it!

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Comments

Tamil Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:32:30 AM

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KarenNerak Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:52:00 AM

I freakin' love it! o Honestly. The colors are so harmonious, and although it's a Fall related theme, it's still got a happy feel to it. bigsmile



Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:54:14 AM

Looks great.http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -

Both the monkeys and I "ook" a lot, so it is hard to tell the difference.


Not really. pssst One of you has a lot less hair. lol

Caroloperainchicago Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:03:31 AM

Great look. Love it smile

Julianjjsl6 Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:05:03 AM

Looks good smile

Mustafa OğuzinBusteR Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:06:21 AM

Pretty cool smile I love these colors.up

Johann AntonioJohann-7 Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:23:22 AM

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A.shunshunyi Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:38:32 AM

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Bugfixer Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:42:00 AM

Cool design. I'm impressed yikes

Joeljgm21 Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:43:01 AM

holy! looks pretty cool! up

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, September 25, 2011 2:06:41 AM

Andrew Nguyenandrewnguyen Sunday, September 25, 2011 2:29:43 AM

Helder Jefferson Ferreira da LuzDante003 Sunday, September 25, 2011 2:37:14 AM

Really cool cheers

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, September 25, 2011 2:51:45 AM

Originally posted by SouthernCross:

http://i.imgur.com/kxay0.gif (325kb)


lol

d4rkn1ght Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:18:53 AM

cool headbang

Andrei operaterrestrial Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:42:33 AM

wizard up

exterhardd Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:06:47 AM

Great design, match color!

marbross Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:24:15 AM

New blog design is very fine especially the colors selection smile

galadriel Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:44:39 AM

Woah you can change the 'blog, links, archive, photos' etc tab! How do I do this? Is there a tutorial somewhere? I want to make my blog pretty, but I'm too stupid to understand CSS. I only have a Bachelors Degree with Merit Awards...not very clever:(

HenryAOTEAROAnz Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:02:17 PM

Ook!
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h8me3 Sunday, September 25, 2011 1:43:40 PM

very nich :) good work guys ! chrome and firefox user can be silly ;)

metude Sunday, September 25, 2011 2:40:44 PM

Personally, i didn't like headings, article text and sidebar design. But top section is good. down

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, September 25, 2011 3:19:49 PM

Originally posted by galadriel:

Woah you can change the 'blog, links, archive, photos' etc tab! How do I do this? Is there a tutorial somewhere? I want to make my blog pretty, but I'm too stupid to understand CSS. I only have a Bachelors Degree with Merit Awards...not very clever


It is the user css and there are many people who have made tutorials on their blog, have a look around smile

galadriel Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:56:10 PM

Originally posted by Chas4:

It is the user css and there are many people who have made tutorials on their blog, have a look around


Any suggestions on WHICH blog I can look at? Having a look around thousands of blogs is going to take me a while.

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:02:03 PM

Originally posted by galadriel:

Any suggestions on WHICH blog I can look at? Having a look around thousands of blogs is going to take me a while.


none that I can think of but there are plenty of people in the forums that would be glad to answer questions

Jimtoyotabedzrock Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:01:52 PM

Not bad up

Originally posted by galadriel:

Woah you can change the 'blog, links, archive, photos' etc tab! How do I do this? Is there a tutorial somewhere? I want to make my blog pretty, but I'm too stupid to understand CSS. I only have a Bachelors Degree with Merit Awards...not very clever:(



There are groups somewhere on my.Opera that people do design.

It's the one failing part of my.opera I guess. It's hard to find these groups.

Danieldesic Sunday, September 25, 2011 11:01:53 PM

Like it! up

Abhinavdecodedthought Sunday, September 25, 2011 11:20:43 PM

really nice up

Yeni Setiawansandalian Monday, September 26, 2011 4:20:05 AM

Awesome design, I really want to steal bigsmile

Sami Serolaserola Monday, September 26, 2011 4:36:27 AM

Lucalucaviozzi Monday, September 26, 2011 10:45:54 AM

yes

Zdenko Timulakzdenotim Monday, September 26, 2011 12:28:43 PM

Summer was better..

paulina antaina enninantaina Monday, September 26, 2011 12:53:00 PM

that is truth.

Paweł Pawlakpafflick Monday, September 26, 2011 6:10:54 PM

The page header and Opera News logo are great, but the links on the right and background colors are horrible. down I agree that the summer design was much better...

Ruarí Ødegaardruario Monday, September 26, 2011 7:46:48 PM

Very nice work as always!

galadriel Monday, September 26, 2011 7:48:12 PM

Originally posted by pafflick:

I agree that the summer design was much better...


Summer is always better!smile

netmain Monday, September 26, 2011 8:35:36 PM

Great look, nice work really .. i'm impressed

Laura Lee Randalllauraleerandall Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:22:53 AM

A masterpiece is a work in constant progress.... llr

Cutting Spoonhellspork Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:25:23 AM

Quite nice...though it would be stellar if the sidebar also folded when pushed to the bottom. Finding that I have to scroll up a fair bit after skipping to bottom with Opera Mini.

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