New Look, Same Great Taste
Well, I've been planning to bedeck asisaid for Christmas since the end of October and that fit in neatly with my desire for some improvements in the site's design. Christopher's recent reworking of What in Tarnation!?!? and Avoiding Evil got me even more in the mood to redesign. While I'm still working on some things (like redoing the navbar categories — they really don't fit as well as they did before the site became mostly centered around this blog), I've pretty much revised the look. It's about time: not much has changed on the site for almost two years and I was getting tired of the way things looked.
Obviously, some of it is season specific (it's Ccchrrriiissstmmmmassssss allll oooovverrr the woooooorrrlld… uh, ahem) , but what do you think overall? Is it an improvement? I've tested it on Mozilla, Konqueror and Internet Explorer and everything checks out. I would have tried Safari too, but my KVM switch seems to be getting ready to buy the farm and I can't control my G5 very well atm. sigh
By the way, I realized that last week marked the one year anniversary of the first time I was aware that someone other than Ciaran (who gave me the software to start this blog) was reading this blog — Mr. Wright! It also marks a year since I added comments, so perhaps Christopher, or someone else, was here before that, although I rarely posted anything that was very interesting prior to the redesign of the blogging software that added comments.
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Name: Timothy R. Butler
Birthday: Sep. 24
Favorite Color: Green
Education: BA, M.Div
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RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
Well I like it! Now if I could just do something like that.
Wow, was I the first commenter? Cool. I think Pressed and I started reading around the same time.
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
Thanks, Christopher. It took a lot of planning, but it feels nice to finally have something different — I’m sure you’ll get everything arranged soon. I’ve been sorta planning this for at least six months.
I think you were the first commentor, or if not, the first other than Ciaran. I’ll have to find the link to the post sometime later on.
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
I like the holiday look!
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
Might want to play with the margin around your sidebar so the text of your posts doesn’t butt up against the blue field. A little whitespace would be nice. (FWIW, I had the same issue in my browsers in the previous design.)
I’m currently using Firebird, but same issue in Safari.
Beyond that niggling little issue, the site looks real nice. I like the header.
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
I love the new look!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
Thanks Sophorist, Kevin and Michael!
Kevin — I noticed that in Mozilla and Safari, too (although everything looked fine in Konqueror and Internet Explorer). I added a small additional whitespace on the table beyond that which I had in my style.
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
Looks better, Tim! The designer in me wants more white space, but at least I can read it without hurting myself, now.
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
Thanks Kevin! I’ll play with it a little more — I’m trying to avoid putting to much in so that IE users don’t have way to much, but a little more might not hurt.
RE: New Look, Same Great Taste
I know what you mean. Of course, my position these days is to not care what it looks like in IE. If enough people stop coding for IE, maybe more IE users will decide to switch to browsers that at least pretend to be compliant.
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In this case, IE seems to actually be doing the right thing for once (as is Konqueror). Using