Site re-design
Well, not really a complete re-design. Just moving things around a bit, plus turning into a 3-column style. With tables, no less :shocked:
If you go into your user account, you can switch to the "xtemplate" theme to see what I'm working on.
I'm currently losing my mind over some weird stuff where lists aren't displaying properly, but I can't actually tell if it's caching somewhere or what.
Update:Yup, it's a caching issue. I've been using my Linux box for routing, since it seems my router has died. It still functions as a switch, but routing functions...borked.
[image:633,left,5,5]So here's a preview of what things are going to look like. Right now, too many dotted lines. I didn't want to have a lots of little boxes feel, don't know if this achieves it. I think I'm going to ditch dotted lines around blockquotes -- the indenting and italicizing are probably already enough. Or perhaps not italicize, just use a different font?
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I liked the old design. The new design is even better.
Is the grey a little too grey? Maybe a grey blue or purple?
The spacing betwen the AdSense and Site Details looks good whereas it seems a bit tite between the top links (Mac OS X through Contact).
The class afloat link seems like it may be out of place. Should Mac OS X be the first link there? Is there another (or more) "topic link" that would classify some of this good content?
diggin it
deep.
Switch has been thrown...
It doesn't look as nice in IE6 as it does in other browsers, but it works. A few more stylesheet tweaks, like a left-border on blockquotes.
Use the account link at the top for logging in, etc.
If you don't like the new look, you can change your user settings to use a different template.
As Greg notes...
Greg said:
Currently you have to use the account button at the top. This is a template theme, meaning I don't have to mix PHP code and HTML. The downside being it's harder to fiddle with the PHP code.
I just noticed that there is no way to tell if you are logged in or not, so this is something that I will be fixing. Plus adding comment perma-link markers.
mostly nice
but :) (using moz 1.5)
- the left hand grey column is a bit wide
- the Search box is below the Search button (overlaps the top black line)
- the right hand column is a bit squished; take the extra space from the left side
- it finally renders properly on the first load on my work box!!
- like the right hand tabs, they almost look like they should be able to slide out onto the page >:) "Wouldn't that be cool!?!?"
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Yo B,
http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/662
1st column is still WIDE... oops ;-)
Intermittent
Looks like some items from Amazon's related stuff sometimes makes the left column wide. Probably about time to ditch that feature anyway, since my total earnings from Amazon to date are....(drum roll please)....$0!
I think we're there now
Made the left hand pretty skinny and widened the right hand. Search got nuked. New change: made top-links a separate row. Any other suggestions of what should go up there? I kind of decided to just stick the "section links" in the upper left hand corner, along with the basic site stuff.
Mmm...there are some javascript collapse/expand scripts that might be able to do that with the "tabs" on the right, but I think that's basically too much trickery.
Oh ya, and I created a "My Events" button to link to my Upcoming.org user page -- at the bottom of the Site Details block.
So, complaints or suggestions, then sometime next week I'll throw the switch on making it the default theme.