A week’s work on Alex Allied v2 has come to an end and you’re looking at the result right in front of your screen. Introducing the Fury 1.0 template for WordPress.

The Mission

I had always wanted to create websites that loads quickly. No one likes to wait, and cutting down the loading time is my top priority in this project. Nowadays, fast-loading websites doesn’t have to be ugly, thanks to CSS. Conforming to Web 2.0 standards in terms of web design is also an essential part of the project. Though, I’m still working my way through reaching the standards.

CSS Coding and Hacking

It has not been an easy-ride having to fix the CSS code to work in both IE and Firefox – with Firefox being the priority of course, but there’s plenty of reference and guidance on the Internet to help me out.

Slashing the Bandwidth

My mission is to create a website that loads in no time, so graphic usage is kept to a minimum – as you can see in the amount of white space involved. Nifty little icons were used to point out important details. I’ve also reduced the number of posts displayed on the front page.

My previous blog (Alex Allied v1) design was stuffed with unnecessary contents – mostly dominated by advertisements. In Alex Allied v2, I’ve removed the greedy Chitika e-mini malls and the Amazon recommended books section, leaving the more productive Google Adsense to continue supporting my ever-drying pocket.

Naming the Theme

The name ‘Fury’ popped out of my mind during the design process, which was pretty furious. The template was initially code-named “Empty” as I’ve planned to make one with nothing but a few simple lines to mark the zones. But half-way through the project I’ve decided that it’s too bare to my liking, and since the whole layout is almost blank, I could easily stick that red furious face to spice up the template.

Conclusion

I do hope that the new template will improve the overall surfing experience here. The template will be out on testing mode for now. Hopefully there will be no buggy errors. Just in case you guys spotted one, do notify me about it. Feedbacks and comments are always welcomed. Thanks in advance!