I’m doing a little redesigning here today… finally getting around to transferring the blog to the new 2-column and 3-column layouts I’ve been implementing on the subpages. Pardon my mess.
I’m having a blast seeing what kind of web layouts I can pull off using text, CSS, and PHP with no images. It’s quite the challenge to make it all work visually and still be aesthetically pleasing. A constant work in progress.
P.S. I ditched the javascript show and hide navigation at the tops of the pages. I Just didn’t like the way it behaved when new pages loaded in. Everything that was in the header is now in the footer, so just click “Site Navigation” to jump to it and find your way around.
P.P.S. If you don’t have the typeface Myriad, you’re really missing out because it makes all the typography on here look a billion times better. I hate typography on the web… so few options.
I’m glad you dropped the javascript. It was kindof annoying…
said Jerrett
at 1:23pm on Friday
*A note on my tone in that last post. I was smiling and it was jokes. My voice gave an inflection of jest.
Haha.
said Jerrett
at 1:25pm on Friday
so sad, i had great expectations of that effect on your pages.
said Austen
at 2:12pm on Friday
Dwayne was working on a little Javascript snippet that would do the same thing, only with a sort of time release on it that might cure the annoying flicker. We’ll see.
said Joshua
Ok, the new layout *seems* to be well for now, though I haven’t tested anything in IE yet, so if you still use that devil browser and things look odd, let that be further reason for you to switch to Firefox.
I’ll tackle the archives, search functionality, and a few styling and proper coding things eventually. But for now, I have more to pack for this weekends moving festivities.
said Joshua
With the new colour scheme, this place is slowly starting to look like mine! ;)
said edemay
at 3:16pm on Friday
seems a bit large.
said Aaron
at 5:44pm on Friday
Yeah, it’s a 900px grid, and I’ve thought of shaving it down a bit. (Sometimes it’s easy to forget that my monitor is a tad on the huge side of things.)
said Joshua
I love the new look. The single column I must say was on its way out.
said Austen
at 6:44pm on Friday
I heard ems are nice for internet typography. That way you could size up or down depending on your resolution.
This matches ems to px, so it’s easy to tell how big your type will be:
BODY {font-size:62.5%}
So in other words..
1em is now equal to 10px
1.2em would be equal to 12px
0.9em would be equal to 9px
..and so on.
Might be a good thing, might not. :)
said Jerrett
at 6:54pm on Friday
I was mainly talking about the type size. I get maybe 2 posts on my screen now.
said Aaron
at 8:34pm on Friday
You could always jack Shaun Inman’s code for his “Navigate/Search” show/hide. That auto-scroll to the bottom of the page is a little intense.
http://www.shauninman.com/plete/
said Robbie
at 7:50pm on Saturday
You should send myriad to your adoring blog fans who don’t have it installed on their PC’s (this this gal right here) :)
Love the new look!
said brooke
at 11:29am on Sunday