February 29, 2004

Not Writing

Posted by shonk at 05:17 AM in Blogging | TrackBack

I’m ashamed to admit that in the last five days, Curt has three times as many substantive posts as I do. For whatever reason, I haven’t been able to get into the writing mood. Instead, I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the last week or so making some modifications to the site. These include the feedroll, the link titles and new RSS feeds and the author info location change; tonight, as I’m sure you’ve already noticed, I’ve made a somewhat more visible alteration. The switch to a three-column layout was motivated in part by the fact that the right sidebar seemed to be growing uncontrollably in the old layout. Hopefully the links (now on the left) will be more prominent now. Also, I think I’m getting heartily sick of the white background and the stylesheet changes I’ve made are (hopefully) the first steps in the process of introducing some color to the site.

Please, if you have any recommendations or suggestions, leave a comment or send me an email. I especially want to hear from you if you think the new layout looks like shit or if it is being rendered by your browser in a way that is not at all similar to this screenshot. Thanks.

UPDATE Obviously, I decided to just go ahead and change the background color. Again, please let me know what you think.

UPDATE PART DEUX The orange was giving me a headache. I think it looks better now.

Comments

Shonk -

Have you been making pumpkin pies? Whoa.

Posted by: John Venlet at February 29, 2004 03:07 PM

Yeah, it is sorta orange, isn't it?

Posted by: shonk at February 29, 2004 03:15 PM

Looks good. I am having a slight difficulty with highlighting text with IE, I didn't notice this before the recent changes. However Netscape doesn't seem to have this problem, so it's really no big deal.

Aaron

Posted by: Aaron at February 29, 2004 06:04 PM

It's almost what they called "harvest gold" from the late 60's or early 70's. That was the color for appliances at one of those points in time. It does make the type stand out better though.

Posted by: John Venlet at February 29, 2004 06:04 PM


Looks good, I like it.

LOL...John...for years we had a 'harvest gold' refrigerator. It boasted the worlds largest, slowest, and noisiest icemaker. \

Posted by: George Potter at February 29, 2004 08:38 PM

[i]"Obviously, I decided to just go ahead and change the background color. Again, please let me know what you think."[/i]

I think government is fundamentally incompatible with justice and liberty.

Plus the text of the comments butts right up against the background color. You need a margin, atleas in IE.

Posted by: John T. Kennedy at February 29, 2004 10:50 PM

Plus the text of the comments butts right up against the background color. You need a margin, atleas in IE.

Fixed.

Posted by: shonk at February 29, 2004 11:23 PM

Oh sure, always fix the easier problem....

Posted by: John T. Kennedy at March 1, 2004 02:09 AM

You know me. I'm lazy as hell.

Posted by: shonk at March 1, 2004 02:37 AM