Rushed a theme…didn’t completely test everything….but it’s available

http://www.warrenshea.com/gmail/

idea: today
design: today
development: today
launch: today

I wanted to do a GMAIL theme and yesterday at work, we were looking at this website: http://whichloadsfaster.com/. I tested my site against other sites and, not surprisingly, it got killed.
There’s tons of JavaScript, tons of php logic, tons of images on other themes. That’s the price you pay for coding that can take care of everything….it’s not done cleanly.

So I did this theme…which has a total of 10 images to it, 6 of them being those little icons on the right. The other 4, the title, the icon, and 2 background images of 1 color. It was my intention to create a faster loading theme to counter the slow, image intensive Naruto one released a few days ago. Pretty kool how this whole theme and all the work put into it only took 1 day :) I think I’m most proud of that. And I’m least proud of quality control, having not tested IE8 and Safari, despite being a few clicks away. I’ll leave that for tomorrow…no one’s gonna look at the site in the meantime…except maybe YOU.

EDIT: i wonder how long i can leave this on my screen at work w/o arousing suspicion that it’s my personal site. let me tell you, you can spot that i’m not doing work when it’s on my mega man theme in like, 5 seconds.

…not that gmail is work but at least it’s more acceptable than my favorite 8-bit blue bomber :D