Published by John Hoff on 07 Jul 2008 at 01:00 am
Adding The “Cool Factor” To Your Website
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As a web development company, we love hacking up programs like WordPress and phpBB and transforming their generic layout to our own, even if it’s only parts used by us.
I stumbled upon a website called Binary Moon the other day and found a great plugin for WordPress that lets you customize your login page.
Looking to the image on the right you can see what I came up with (click image to see the actual page).
Most people will never see this page since I don’t have many guest bloggers write articles, but that could change one day and it would be nice to send them to a branded login page.
I also like the fact that someone would go to our login page and think, cool!
We try very hard here at eVentureBiz to make sure our website has a cool factor to it. When I see our site I like to think simple and futuristic. I want people to see our site and say, “Yup, that’s who I want to design my next website.”
Do you like hacking up your factory-issued blog or website template? Do you like adding a coolness factor to it?
If so, what have you done? Maybe you want to but don’t know how? Remember we have a community forum where you can ask for help.
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Barbara Swafford
on 09 Jul 2008 at 12:33 am #
Hi John,
The log in page “logo” is very cool.
Thanks for the link to the plugin. I’ll have to check it out and see what I can do with my blog.
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Cath Lawson
on 09 Jul 2008 at 11:33 am #
John - that really is cool and I think it definitely makes your business look more professional than the average Wordpress plugin.
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John Hoff
on 09 Jul 2008 at 6:09 pm #
Let me just say, I love both your avatars. Are you two really cartoon characters?
Yeah when I came across that plugin I thought, “oh that’s for me.” I love to customize.
I might spend a little more time creating a nice graphic but for the moment I just made it match our header.
Real nice if I ever decide to have guest posts.
Andrew
on 20 Jul 2008 at 10:56 pm #
I made a plugin like this once, lost it in all the server transfers over the past year.
But, mine was pretty much the same, except for that I could choose from any of the files in the folder that held the designs, from inside of the Plugin settings.
John Hoff
on 21 Jul 2008 at 6:32 am #
Hey Andrew. Welcome over to my blog.
You sound like me, I’ve built so many computers, reinstalled Windows a million times, and have had to switch hosts over the years as well. It’s all a pain and I’ve lost stuff as well.
I like plugins like these because I love customizing anything I get.