Bluer than Bleeding Gums Murphy!
But feeling blue in a good way though.
As you can probably see…
Welcome to the new-look BatiFan blog, overhauled for a number of varied reasons – though mainly to better serve passing on news and downloads etc as Alvaro moves into the top class for 2010. The Blogger page, whilst easy to post to, had come to feel very restrictive in many ways and I was getting bored with the static, very long, 2 column layout and the inflexibility of the ‘theme’ manipulation.
Given that pretty much all my other Alvaro Bautista, MotoGP, Aspar, El Canto Del Loco, and Pere Tutusaus websites have been moved over successfully to WordPress it made sense to do the same with the blog. In structuring the pages and adapting the skin I’ve tried to retain as much of a genuinely “bloggy” feel to the site – after all it’s NOT simply a news site – and I’ve also made the decision that it’s the right time to shift all the colours away from the Mapfre red that we’ve enjoyed for the last two years and to head off into Rizla Suzuki’s blue territory. Again though, I’ve tried to avoid the obvious – and as it’s NOT a Rizla Suzuki site I’ve avoided simply aping or copying their brand palette and stylings and gone for something that retains an independent aesthetic approach whilst remaining completely sympathetic to the team livery.
Anyway – we’re back and we’re better – hope you like the new lick of paint and the underlying rebuild. There may be further tweaks and adaptations here and there, but hopefully the BatiFan blog is now set to take us into 2010 and beyond as we follow Alvaro on his big MotoGP adventure.
Cheers,
gb









