I was recently asked by Tertia Albertyn to re-design her Typepad weblog.Tertia’s blog, So Close, was this year’s winner of the South African Blog Awards. Her blog focuses on life after infertility and has a huge amount of readers, it has even featured in a lot of South African press. It was therefore not a hard decision to take up the responsibility of the job. Tertia was a great client to deal with and gave me very few guidelines to follow, I could therefore play around with what ever creative ideas I had. It had to have an African feel though, and include her lovely children in some way.
This was my first Typepad theme design and I must say it was much easier than I thought it might be. Typepad is a very powerful system, and with a professional license it allows for heavy customization of the stylesheet files giving you complete control of the blog layout.
I hope you like the end result.
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Awesome stuff Mark, is it still in Beta though? I see the About page is still the same as before.
http://www.tertia.org/about.html
Hey Mark, I absolutely love your designs and am very inspired by your creativity. Top-notch stuff, if I wasn’t trying to become a designer myself I would certainly employ your services!
Hey Wezz, you are very observant. I just noticed that a few minutes ago. Somehow only that page hasn’t accepted the new theme design. Will get that fixed. With that fixed it will be the final product, no beta phase.
Capdog: Thanks for the compliment. Glad you are somewhat inspired by my sites. I learnt a lot of my design skills through the web and going through countless tutorials. I’d advise you do the same. The internet has such a wealth of freely available resources!
Tertia’s new site looks GREAT. Mine, however, does not. What do you charge?
E-mail me, please? at brekke2004@gmail.com
Love your work Mark!!!
Mark was great to work with, he was so patient and always willing to try something out. And didn’t swear at me once when I said “actually, I prefer it the way you had it before”
Highly recommend Mark. A true professional.
Nice work Mark – great read too!