September-28-07

WTF Happened To My Favourite Blog?

posted by Smivey

That’s probably what you’re thinking right now. OK, maybe this blog isn’t your favourite, and maybe you don’t spell “favourite” like that. But… uhhhh what was I talking about?

Oh, right. The new look of my blog. What do you think? I’m still working out the kinks. Right now, there is no search function and some of my archives are missing (YIKES!). Also, my blogroll is MIA. I need to fix all that. Not saying I can fix all of it. But I need to. I mean, I’m no master of CSS. I’m more of a serf.

But I digress. Again. Anyhow, I’m going to get back to trying to tweak this code. Thank you for your patience.

Oh, and if everything looks the same to you, that means I’m not messing with the new template at the moment. Be thankful.

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  1. nelsdrums Said,

    what are you? English? What colour is that anyway?

  2. Smivey Said,

    In the blog world, I am English.

  3. Kris Said,

    Good spellage. I also like the centre alignment, the colour, and not to criticise, but the ageing encylycopaedia forecasted a signalling… crap, I’m out of British words.

    I like the header graphic, too. Who drew it?

  4. Smivey Said,

    Thanks. A coworker of mine drew it quite a while ago, back when I was clean shaven. Nels, the guy who designed my blog, thought it would be cool to incorporate it into the design. Unfortunately, neither one of us are code monkeys. So this is going to take a lot of time to figure out how to fix everything.

  5. nelsdrums Said,

    I think you need some sort of padding or something for the right side of the sidebar. To keep the type off the edge at least 5 or 10 pixel. “General Lunacy (58)” or a tiny bit beyond. seems like a pretty good bondary. Nice to see the red headlines back. Maybe you are a code-spider-monkey?

  6. nelsdrums Said,

    Oh yeah, the comments pages seem to have a lot of extra space after the headline – which is not red. The posting date is gone. You can use the same bit of code from the main index page here.

  7. nelsdrums Said,

    Okay – it is really getting refined! How about red for the comment person’s name? Also, the comments seem to go a bit too far to the right. Not enough neg space.

  8. nelsdrums Said,

    Justin Case you didn’t notice, your archive and search results pages could benefit from your main page post formatting. The titles are tiny!

  9. bobby Said,

    this looks cool! but it’s all show and no go. start drinking or doing some medical marijuana to spice up thoze wurdz.

  10. Smivey Said,

    Did you check out those archives? I’ve been going for years now. Note to self: man, these comments look like shit.

  11. bobby Said,

    also . . . i hope that’s not really your signature.

    if it is, i think you should start putting a heart over the i.

  12. Smivey Said,

    Actually, it’s a tagger font.

  13. nelsdrums Said,

    Dang. It’s a straight-up tagger font transcribed from some juvenile delinquent! You must be in the midwest…

  14. Jennifer Said,

    Smivey, LOVE the new design. The Smivey image is the best!

  15. Smivey Said,

    Thanks. And thank you for maintaining my anonymity.

  16. frank L. Said,

    I can’t pinpoint it, but there’s something different about your blog. Are you typing with your left hand?

    Also, great new design.

  17. Smivey Said,

    I am typing with my left hand. But that’s just because it’s that time of night. When my right hand gets tired, I mean. On the account of my medical condition. Oh, never mind.

  18. smoove b Said,

    oh stop. you know i kind of enjoy your verbal diarrhoea of a blog.

    now i’m just showing off.

  19. Smivey Said,

    Right. I’m hoping this new design will distract people enough from the writing where they’ll think it’s good again.

  20. Lani Said,

    I like it. It doesn’t hurt my eyes.

  21. Smivey Said,

    No? The red must not be blinding enough. I’ll work on that.

  22. dvl Said,

    aw, even smoove made a comment… now i have warm fuzzies

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