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Sky, Land and water

Posted on: Thursday, Jul 10, 2008

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Sky, Land and Water, this is Design Disease’s new face. I have been working on this new face for about 3 months. Finally, after I tried many different forms and fonts, I came up with this underwater world.

I have also made some domain blog changes. My original URL for the blog was on another address and now it is inside of the original domain and with a single design.

After my last post, I have learned what my weakest points are (marketing, communication, language barrier,) and I hope in the near future to see some improvements. Even though I felt undermarketed, I still did a few major projects, like blogflux.com, minnesota.com, ibegin…and so on.

Regarding what some of you might be interested, free wordpress themes, I have some projects with some friends and partners, but those will be public when the time is right. Just a hint, the next 2 themes will be called “Albeo” and “Fervens”.

I need to apologize to those who post comments on this blog and haven’t got an answer. I promise I will be more watchful from now on.

Enjoy this new design.

Ahmed Farooq said:

Director (Enthropia Inc)

I've been a customer of DD's for over four years. I've had them create dozens of logos and website designs for me, and have never been disappointed with their work. These guys know what they are doing, and they deliver.

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62 Responses to “Sky, Land and water”

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AhmedF

July 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
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Beautiful stuff Elena :)

R.Bhavesh

July 10th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
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Another masterpiece from you. I envy you girl. Wish I had same design still like you!

Sirsly

July 11th, 2008 at 12:21 am
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Congratulations for this “new” blog!
I’m waiting for Albeo and Fervens ;-)

Ciao dall’Italia!!!

Tony

July 11th, 2008 at 1:28 am
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Wow really impressive!

good luck Elena

Noel Hurtley

July 11th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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I absolutely love the new site. It’s beautifully well thought-out right down to the smallest detail.

My only suggestion would be to add outline:0; to all of the form fields in your CSS so that Safari won’t display a hideous blue border when the field is selected. It wreaks havoc on your form designs.

Beyond that minor issue, I think this is one of the best sites you’ve ever designed.

Fath

July 12th, 2008 at 4:04 am
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Design Disease redesigned! Woot! :D

Alex

July 12th, 2008 at 5:54 am
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Loving it. Well done. The further I scroll down, the more I can feel the cold, dark sea :-)

Michal Tuschl

July 12th, 2008 at 9:07 am
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Congratulations, awesome redesign! Fantastic masterpiece. ;) Just look in at is pleasure for eyes and webdesigners soul.

Craig Farrall

July 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
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Great blog/website!
Absolutely love this new design, I don’t know what it looked like before, but I am a huge fan of this new design it has to be said.
Great work.

Senior Web Designer

July 13th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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I really liked the website and the idea behind it :)

Keep the Great work!

Kevin

July 14th, 2008 at 7:03 am
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The idea is good, but I don’t think everything is worked out good.

And I can’t even see where the inputs are with replying…

Kevin

July 14th, 2008 at 7:04 am
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Sorry, my bad. The images didn’t load or something.

Scott

July 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
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Great design. Very nice work!

Tomakun

July 15th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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Awesome job you did here. I like it a lot. However, I’m finding your text a bit difficult to read on long posts. You might wanna try tweaking the post text color a little bit. But besides that, it’s a masterpiece.

ThemeLib.com

July 16th, 2008 at 7:08 am
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Very nice look.

I love your design :)

idwebtemplate team

July 16th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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Wow.. nice design. I like it

altamira

July 17th, 2008 at 9:23 am
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Blue is always a good choice

snipegames

July 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am
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Very nice designed,

Great work

Gisele

July 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
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Congrats sweetie, it looks awesome :D

Adlene

July 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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Nice design, i love it ;-)

Wakas Mir

July 19th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
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That’s just amazing .. keep up the wonderful work :)

Fubiz

July 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
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Beautiful template !!

Matthew Hill

July 21st, 2008 at 8:30 am
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I love the design but the order of the HTML now makes it really hard to use with a screen reader, because all the sidebar content is read out before the comments.

I think this is not very intuitive, it would be much better for the comments to come directly after the post in the HTML source, with the sidebar HTML code after the comments.

If you can’t do this, then can you please provide a link right after the post content that will jump to the comments?

Eli

July 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 am
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Very nice and unique, I love it.

Keep up the great work, and get us some more unique, free themes please! :)

Destinie

July 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 am
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Your work is so influential! I love it, keep up the awesome work! :)

boer

July 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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very cool looking design you have make for this blog going to have a look to your free temps olso

Muhammad Hakim

July 24th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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a very good theme!

wish I can design and scripting like you…

Marcos

July 25th, 2008 at 6:24 am
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O tema especifico deste site é espetacular.
Gostaria que vc me permitisse usa-lo em meu site.

Os outros free também são ótimos, mas este é maravilhoso em minha opnião.

webstigma

July 25th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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great job on the design. i really like the water feel of the design. nice work

Kya

July 26th, 2008 at 10:59 am
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Wow, it is just completely amazing! Congratulations on creating something so breathtaking and fresh! :) *wubs*

koffiekitten

July 28th, 2008 at 2:45 am
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I really like the theme and think that it captures the right feel. Good job!

Looking forward to see Fervens!

max play

July 28th, 2008 at 7:25 am
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Very nice designed,

Good job

ChitMoe

July 29th, 2008 at 3:17 am
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so Beautiful & Pro web site I like this design

Maryrussel

July 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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do you like my design?
Check it at http://www.drink1give10.com

thanks guys

lette

July 31st, 2008 at 9:19 pm
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Hi!
i love this theme, is it downloadable?
Thanks!

Pinkeboo

August 1st, 2008 at 9:34 am
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Nice themes, and I your comments section is incredible :D

Milwaukee Web Design

August 1st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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Great post.

vdhdesigns

August 1st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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Nice design! Very refreshing. I love it. I hope its open for public use…lol

Aaron Marks

August 4th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
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Wonderful design! You have some serious skills. I’ll make sure to let you know if I ever need some design work done for my business.

wanwan

August 5th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
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好可爱,好漂亮,好有创意~~
like it so much~~

Johnz

August 13th, 2008 at 4:46 am
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Really nice design!

罗晓刚

August 21st, 2008 at 11:11 am
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你好,我想要你空间的主题

是wordpress的吗

我想要

我认为你这个主题做的很好

给我好吗

我的电子邮箱 ro_skn@163.com

sand

August 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 am
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So beautiful! So amazing!
This is really the most beautiful WP theme I’ve ever seen, wish you to make an even more beautiful theme someday and release this to all of us! :P

Marcus

September 2nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
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A wonderful theme on your page. Also the colors go nicely from over the water to down and deeper in the water. Well done!

kevin.loh

September 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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Nice theme! Wonderful!
I like it.

jay

September 5th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
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good job

Mansour

September 8th, 2008 at 7:28 am
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FAV website,, Nice perfect design

JiYinLong

September 18th, 2008 at 12:09 am
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how to download

aBIGwhale

September 21st, 2008 at 11:44 pm
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49

this is gorgeous

ferre

September 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
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i love this theme, i started to imagine a similar one in the space or in another era, i really love your designs, hope someday one alike. thank you

Kong

October 1st, 2008 at 3:29 am
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Congratulations on this theme! It looks fantastic and well thought-out. Love the layout, the colors, the shapes and all :)

Someone

October 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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3 months :-o ? OMG you are good ;)

Carlos Hermoso

November 13th, 2008 at 7:39 am
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Hi!

I just want to say to you how good I think your work is!

电器

November 15th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
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文章好啊。我转载一下。是不是博主原产的啊。用不用注明出处.

creativedge - logo design

November 26th, 2008 at 8:21 am
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Best blog design I have seen so far , great work

dsusetyo

December 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
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Great Design.
Only the font color of the comment looks “too dark” for me to read. May be you can consider to make it more “bright” as bright as the heading, such as “Leave a Reply”

macias

December 20th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
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i like this underwater idea :)

Dr.Best

December 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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Looks stunning,Just needs some work on the edges,particularly where there are bright colors.
just need’s a higher Pixel.
All in all,looks Like a Winner to me.

Markus

March 25th, 2009 at 1:52 am
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Hey very nice Design. The Form for the Comments is really nice.

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Great work. Very clean and crisp.

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