I’ve finished updating my theme… for the most part. Haven’t decided whether to add the banner images. Not a whole lot of changes — the biggest one being I’ve boosted the wrapper width to 900 px.
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One tiny suggestion: GIF the little cloud bullet so the white box around it doesn’t show. Otherwise nice and simple with big text. I like it.
What would theme changes be without ungrateful, nagging complaints from your disloyal readers, so here goes:
It’s funny, but I used to really like the Futura font (back in the 80s when one had to learn these things the old-fashioned way, from big books of typefaces) that this theme appear to be using for headings. These days, for a sans serif font, not so much (Gill Sans is more my thing). Anyhow, the Futura font alone—as well as in contrast to whichever serif font that this theme uses—is a bit jarring.
But that’s just me.
…Or is it Century Gothic? Ack, I don’t know.
It looks marginally better in Firefox than IE7, but not by much, it seems.
Why not go back to that white-on-green theme you had eons ago, with the red seal on each comment? That was cool.
I like banners.
Ugh.
Well, if you like banners, Andy, then banners it shall be.
Sewing — I switched back to trusty Times New Roman for the post titles. Should make for a slightly less jarring contrast with the Georgia font the content uses.
I like banners too - just makes the site look a little nicer. You’re photos are pretty good - why not install a plugin that will randomly choose a banner from a bunch of pics? I think the lost nomad does something like that - half the time i pop over there just to see what new photo he has up.
“Georgia font the content uses”? Not anymore… blockquotes are in Georgia, but content text is in some sans serif font I can’t immediately identify.
OK, you got banners now — randomly chooses from four of ‘em. In fact, the banner is so big (880 px by 350 px) that they probably violate some cardinal rule of good web design.
Ut videam — I switched out the Georgia font for Lucida Grande. I still use Georgia for the blockquotes, though… just to mix things up a bit.
Am I the only one who sees a Greek psi in the title line instead of an apostrophe? It seems to show up regardless of character encoding settings.
That’s odd. Which browser are you using?
Firefox 2.0.0.4, but it’s on a Windows XP machine.
Which I suspect is the cause.
Oh wait, never mind. Now it looks okay.
You did mean for the title to be in Comic Sans, didn’t you?
Oh, my eyes! You know I’m very selective about the topics I whine and moan on, but your blog right now looks frankly awful. Great banner photo(s?), but PLEASE get rid of the Comic Sans masthead and some other font for the body text.
It’s your blog that I don’t pay any money to read for all your hard work, and I appreciate that. But please, for the love of all that is good….
Mr Kim — I use the same browser on the same system. Odd something like that would happen. And yes, I did intend for the title to be Comic Sans, although Sewing seems to be intimating that both it and the sans-serif font I am currently using for by content font are less-than-satisfactory. Methinks he believes the Comic Sans fails to convey the sort of dignity befitting this august blog.
Marmot: Please restore the “Home” navigation button.
Spewer: Will try, although I may have to stick it at the top of the sidebar.
Sewing: OK, I’ve set the blog title to Times New Roman, and the content font is Georgia. Does that look better?
Yes, Robert, it’s returning to its natural state of augustness.
In this reader’s humble opinion, it looks great now.
One little problem: on the main page, the sidebar doesn’t start until the bottom of the last article (at least in IE6 on XP).
Thank you for your response, by the way.
Ut videam: That could be the screen resolution. It’s okay on my 1280 x 800 screen…
But Robert, I see another problem related to Ut videam’s. Well, not a problem, but the body text font seems pretty big, which may be what’s pushing the sidebar to the bottom of Ut’s screen….
It’s not a resolution thing, as mine’s at 1280×1024. I’m thinking it’s an IE thing.
Also, it only happens on the main page. The sidebar renders fine in the pages for individual posts.
1280 by 1024, eh? Well, I’m using IE7 and the main page is okay. Get with the times!
Hehe! Honestly, I couldn’t give two 방귀 about how the page renders in Internet Exploder on Windoze. I use (mostly) Firefox and Safari (for certain pages) on my beloved Liberpotens at home. I’m only stuck using this thing at work while I kill time between classes.
Liberpotens?
Actually, thanks for the heads up — I’ve been looking at it in IE7, Firefox and the new Safari for Windows (which is cool but buggy, being a beta and all), but God only know it looks in IE6. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t give two 방귀 either except for the fact that 57.46% of my readers are looking at the blog in IE, and 67.64% of them are using IE6. I’ll have to drop by a PC room to check it out.
“Powerbook” in Latin.
Yes, I’m pathetic.
Ut: D’oh! And not pathetic, IMO.
Robert: Make a day of it and blog about it: the Marmot visits a PC Bang. (I don’t know how to make it interesting enough to hook us jaded regulars, though.)
Actually, I just took a look on a coworker’s machine with IE6 and, wouldn’t you know it, the sidebar slips to the bottom. IE (prior to version 7) handles margins a bit funny, so this is probably the reason. Will work a fix.
With respect to “Home” navigation as requested by Sperwer, users ought to know that on most blogs, the accepted convention is for the blog title itself to be a link back to the home page. That’s the Marmot’s Hole practice in addition to any express “Home” link.
IE6 positioning problem fixed.
I like the main title when it’s flush left without serifs.