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Mac Tricks and Tips, Wallpapers and Applications for Mac Users
New Design. The White UsingMac
After several months of black-theme UsingMac, we've decided to transform into white-theme design. Perhaps, some of you might feel surprised by this sudden change, but we hope that you feel comfortable with our new design.
Why Do We Choose White?
Having browsed through most of the websites that contain guide or information, rarely can we see them using white-on-black layout. That's when we think of changing into white-on-black layout.
What Are The Changes We Made?
If you have visited our site before, you would notice that the look-and-feel of several places have been tweaked, for example: mini highlights on the top now is incorporated with simple round button, you can browse through those highlights by clicking on the button.
Besides that change, we have also made changes to
- Logo → Now with simple text instead of image, for faster loading
- Search Bar → Located at right most of our navigation bar
- Sidebar → More appealing hover effect is added for better navigation
- Comment Box → It has been enlarged and now accept line break
And the biggest change would be the change from Black to White.
What Do You Think?
We believe that we are still far from perfect. It's really appreciated if you can give us any constructive feedback or comment on this new design. Not only for giving feedback, you can also try out our new comment box.
Hope you enjoy this new experience with UsingMac.
Design Flow of New UsingMac
As you've noticed, we've changed our design. I spent almost half a year redesigning, optimizing and testing my template in order to get the full satisfaction. As for me, the greatest obstacle in designing myself. Hopefully, I've been able to deliver this sleek and simple design to you.
In our new design, we've implemented several features for better reader experience :
- New Wallpapers Gallery
- Recent Comments Section
- Archives Page
- Ruby Search
- List of Popular Articles
- Live Preview for Comment
If you have any comments on our design, feel free to speak.
If you want to see our process in designing new UsingMac template, you can continue on reading this article.
New MacBook Pro on German Site?
Seriously, everytime new Apple product are going to launch, there will be a lot of photoshopped, leaked mockups spread around the world, especially the world of net; The new MacBook Pro leaked on German site, the story is covered in engadget.
It's a really surprising, shocking and even exciting news. And then following the flow of breaking news, I come upon this bigger and even clearer version MacBook Pro mockup.
[Via: MacRumors]
New Wallpapers Gallery on UsingMac
I am proud to introduce you UsingMac's new section: Gallery. This section is meant for you to view, download and refer back to the original author with the least effort.
Currently, there are 296 beautiful wallpapers collected and showed inside this gallery, including Apple Wallpapers, Firefox Wallpapers and Leopard Wallpapers. I will continue to update this gallery as frequent as I can.