Spring Cleaning Layout Changes
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I decided it was time to streamline the sidebars a bit. On the left hand side I have collapsed the categories and archives into drop down menus since I think I am pretty much the only person that uses them anyway and that definitely cuts their space utilization. I removed some of the other links on the left hand side and the ones I thought folks cared about have migrated to the Other Pages which is now linked there. I then had plenty of room to add a “recent comments” section loosely modeled after the one on DrFaulken‘s site. On the right hand side, I have taken the feathers down since that battle is over. Since the national terror alert has pretty much remained unchanged for the past few years, I have removed those images as well. The rest has been trimmed up a bit and centered. I have screen captures of both before and after views of the site. Feel free to critique. I still am not 100% happy with it and am open to further suggestions. Special thanks to DrFaulken for reviewing the interim phases. |
I like it. You’re right, I never use the categories.
I really like having the latest comments listed. It would be even nicer to have the latest comments available as an RSS feed. (I’m trying to add that to PolkaDot this weekend.)
I’d also like it if the big logo at the top was a link to the main page. I always click there first.
Comment by Tommy — April 20, 2007 @ 7:53 pm
Me too. Every time I try adding the link there, I get a white line underneath the graphic and I cannot seem to be able to massage my CSS to get rid of it. Going to play with it a bit more and probably unlink it again if I cannot get rid of the white line.
Comment by roclar — April 20, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
I added the link to the comments RSS feed. Didn’t even know it was there.
Comment by roclar — April 20, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
And its back to being unlinked. Here is what it looked like. I will have to play with it later.
Comment by roclar — April 20, 2007 @ 10:37 pm
Re-added and fixed the image link at the top. For some reason I had “background-color: #fff;” in all of my a CSS entries. Removing those was the trick. cssedit 2.5 (digg Referer) helped me figure it out. If I ever decide to do some serious work on my stylesheet, I may even end up buying it.
I also moved the comments RSS feed into the 80×15 image link column.
Comment by roclar — April 23, 2007 @ 4:16 pm