April 30, 2008
Speaking of Shiny New Things
On a whim tonight, I made some major modifications to my blog design. I did a bunch of things….
- The Site width is now 960px instead of 1000px. I hope this gives the design a little more breathing room.
- I reduced the font size a bit.
- Simplified the header
- Tried to make the section titles a bit more bold (as i want to highlight the little sayings in throw in there).
- I put the feeds up at the top.
- I only have two full posts showing now, the rest below it are excerpts (for you geeks out there, this was done by using two looks and i queried posts, then offset the bottom section by two posts)
- I moved the flickr photos down to the sidebar so the header could be simpler.
- For the web geeks: I got rid of a bunch of poor markup and also reduced the CSS file by 236 lines.
- I went with bolder lines and borders. Why? I just like it, okay.
- I probably did some other stuff… but I forget.
Note, its too late for me to check to see if the layout breaks in IE for windows. If it does, let me know and I’ll try to fix it for you.
What do you think?
05.1.08
By: John Kloosterman
About a week or so ago, your RSS/atom feeds started giving just a few lines instead of your whole posts; since I read your blog through the feed mostly, switching back would be appreciated.
05.1.08
By: Todd
John, I’ll have to check into that. I have it set as full text and I hate when just summaries are shown on feeds myself. It changed when i upgraded to WordPress 2.5….
05.1.08
By: Matt Jones
I personally like the old font size better. At least on webkit. The bigger size seemed to have better anti-aliasing.
05.1.08
By: Gerald Hiestand
“Anti-aliasing?” Huh?
05.1.08
By: Gerald Hiestand
By the way, I agree with John above. Strangely, today, my feed started picking up both a full post and an abbreviated version of the same post. I like reading your blog, but I don’t need two of each post. Too much anti-aliasing as far as I’m concerned.
05.1.08
By: Todd
Gerald, don’t feel bad. When I read your blog I feel the same way?
For example, a quote from your blog,
“The capriciousness of God de potentia absoluta was countered by the potentia dei ordinate.”
What the heck does that mean? At least I am writing in English.
I tried to fix the feeds everyone, let me know if it fixes anything.
Now, Gerald, Matt and I need to go an anti-alias some more fonts with our webkits.
05.1.08
By: John Kloosterman
Full feed seems to be back. Thanks!
05.1.08
By: Todd
John, Great! Thanks for letting me know. For those who are keeping score at home. For WordPress, when you use the “www.domain.com/feed” it only gives excerpts. when you use “www.domain.com/rss2″ feed it gives the whole post…