I’ve been working very hard this past week to come up with a new theme for Fishing Fury, it would have been online a lot sooner but I’ve been stricken with a horrible flu the past few days. With this theme we thought maybe it would be a good time to try a white background and see how it works out, we may keep this same layout but change the background to black in the future depending on what our fans think.

I’ve integrated a number of cool features into this theme that I think will really set it apart from our previous themes and make your overall experience even better.

1. This theme should have much less rendering issues and has been heavily tested in IE 5.0, IE 5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7.0, Opera 9, Firefox 2, and Safari for windows (sorry, I don’t have a Mac to test).

2. Partner Feeds: There are a few sites that are related to Fishing Fury, like our personal blogs, Clive’s (up and coming) Rockstar Lure blog, and our favorite contributor Adam Guy’s new Japanese fishing blog (The Compleat Tsuribito). These are located at the bottom of the page.

3. Recent Comments/Most Commented: Also located at the bottom of the page, you can see which posts are being commented on right now and those with the most comments.

4. Gallery Feature: When browsing by category, or when viewing a single post, there is now a gallery feature insert at the top of the page. It will pull the categories out of the top most post on the page you’re viewing and use those categories to pull a random set of image from our new photo gallery (Catch The Fury).

Please comment and let us know what you think, we’d love to hear your input!

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Categories: News, Non-Fishing

Tags: Site Updates

Sunday April 13th, 2008 @ 6:12 PM | Jonathon Marshall

14 Responses to “New Theme!”

Glad to see it working in Opera finally!

Clive Mathias on April 13th, 2008 @ 6:32 pm

Ya, now you just have to make sure to close your tags properly in the feature insert ;)

Jonathon Marshall on April 13th, 2008 @ 6:35 pm

lol, all I did was replace links and text - maybe you need to close your tags!

Clive Mathias on April 13th, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

BTW, there seems to be a small bug in the time_since function used for the comments plugins. It should be fixed soon, I think its probably a wordpress/day light savings issue.

Jonathon Marshall on April 13th, 2008 @ 7:43 pm

I thought i’d clicked on the wrong site this morning! Looks very bright! I don’t know if it’s ’cause i’ve been used to seeing it in black for so long but i’m impressed with the new look, thumbs up from me anyway. Mark

Woody on April 14th, 2008 @ 4:03 am

I like the new look!
Thanks for the feed.
I’ve got a new ‘From the table of…’ set of photos from a fishing trip last month. Can I send them to you?

adam on April 14th, 2008 @ 11:02 am

I’ve seen the light, Hallelujah I’ve seen the light. Looks good boys, kinda like FF is done hybernating for the winter , bring on the Fishing season!!

JonnyButts on April 14th, 2008 @ 11:21 am

I’m just a random schmuck who got skunked at the pond this weekend, but I think the site looks slick as hell.

Timmy Mac on April 14th, 2008 @ 11:59 am

Hold on, stop the press, when i loooked 1st thing this morning the homepage had a photo of jon standing in a boat, is this gonna be like a screen saver that changes every day on it’s own or is it final tweaks? If i were you i’d have the pic with the monster Pike, that would piss plenty of people off!

Woody on April 14th, 2008 @ 5:19 pm

Adam, we always love to have your features here! Just email me the details..

Woody, for now we only have two header images so it will rotate between them, but we hope to have enough to rotate them one a day on a weekly basis soon. Maybe even have one a day on a monthly basis in the future.

Jonathon Marshall on April 14th, 2008 @ 6:03 pm