A change is as good as a holiday, they say. But a change and a holiday as well is even better. Non-abusive feedback on the new style is welcome.
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Ken, maybe it's just my browser (IE) but the columns are overlapping - can't get a clear view of the posts.
Layout is good, like the dates, although the white b/ground is quite a shock to the eyeballs after the soothing colour scheme of yore.
The new style is fabulous; the old one was heavy and foreboding. This is great, airy and bright.
The site from which I borrowed this stylesheet commented that its designers had had difficulty getting the design to resolve properly in IE. It looks fine in my version of IE, but its a fairly recent one (6.0). Maybe Wendy's is an earlier version that has more difficulty with this design. If many others have the same problem I'll have to reconsider.
Norman has the same layout. Except different colours.
My first impression was that the server had been hacked. But, well done.. a change is as good as a holiday.
Interesting. A drastic change, might take a bit of getting used to.
It's quite tropical. Kind of airy and ventilated. Maybe you should have a palm tree up behind the armadillo?
Geoff
Never underestimate the extent of my kitsch sensibilities. I actually tried combining a palm tree and armadillo when I first created TA, but I lack the graphics skills to make it look even slightly OK.
EEk,
There is no change on my computer.
Its deju all over again
Homer
Clear your cache by going to Tools - Internet Options - Temporary Internet Files - Delete Files - OK. Then when your cache has been cleared hit the refresh button on your icon bar. That should fix it (with any sort of luck).
If it doesn't, you might consider getting carried away and downloading and installing an up-to-date version of the browser of your choice. IE, Opera or Mozilla seem to be the main choices these days. They're all free and they're all pretty good.
IE is shit. Get Firefox.
I second Scott's recommendation.
Can we have pink? And louvres behind the armadillo
And you could take a photo of me sitting in the Jason recliner under a palm tree for the sidebar.
On balance I think I prefer the old style because it had a certain gravitas, a je ne sais pas quoi, but, as you say, a change is as good as.... However I can't read the last couple of letters in the middle column, even if I reduce the type size to the smallest. Could you reduce the left hand column by about 1.5 cm in the hope that ALL the text becomes visible ?
Wayne
I just copied the stylesheet from someone, and tweaked it a tiny bit. He seems to have created the layout by some method other than cell padding that I don't understand. Maybe one of our HTML gurus might happen by and be prepared to look at the coding in the stylesheet and tell me how I could widen the post column a bit (or narrow the left column). I'm pretty sure there's no problem with more recent versions of IE, but I can't expect every casual reader to be bothered downloading the most recent version just so they can read Troppo properly.
I like it in general, but I can't say the mauve highlights appeal to me.
Ken - I'm using Opera 7.5, Firefox 0.9.2 and when I have to IE 6 on windows. Seems to work fine in all of them. (I'll check it on Linux later)
Check the width of the 'legal links' drop down menu in the right column. If you reduce it a little the column will probably be narrower, as it is until the menu box is loaded.
Wayne
OK I've narrowed the legal menu box as suggested. It doesn't change the column width on my browser, but check yours. In any event, the entire site is loading at snail's pace at present on my machine. I don't know whether others are having the same problem.
I don't know if I'm in the doghouse here or not ... but on the site ... gawd ... I'm shocked ... actually, I like the relief from the black ... but it's also real, real bright ... FWIW I'd suggest just a touch of colour.
- ok if not magenta then what about green, as chris says a touch of - very tropical savannah style green - and magenta print - ok not magenta - awfully close to god with magenta, violet is good for god too what about buddha blue ohhh I really do have to get that prompt copy together feel free to delete this has now become rambling private emil material excuse me you lot I'm just so happy to have my name at the top and a proper photo with my mouth closed.
I was nearly going to say I love you with your mouth open, but then I thought people might misinterpret...
Seriously though, I have a few ideas about colour: - contrasting colours in the right and maybe left sidebars respectively (but not too bright or garish in either case - maybe a very light beige with a parchment pattern like Currency Lad's blog, and/or a washed-out olive), leaving the top banner and centre posts column white). And the headlines and blog description maroon.
Can anyone tell me how to achieve that parchment pattern Currency Lad uses. No doubt it's just a standard template in new Blogger, but how would I adapt it to here?
I'm still nervous about the stylesheet. I'll probably play around with it a bit in Frontpage or Dreamweaver over the next couple of days, while leaving it as is here. But I'll still need someone to tell me about that column overlap problem in earlier IE browsers. I guess I can just try a bit more cell padding and see what happens, but I suspect there's more to it than that.
Alright gurus. How the hell do I get the rest of the right column beige with the parchment pattern? I've stuck them in .side and .sidetitle , where else do they need to go so the whole right column is like that?
Well, that's completely stuffed the gravitas, anyway. I might go back to the all white look and start again. It wouldn't be so bad if I could ditch the palm tree and leave the armadillo in the banner, but it's got a white background so it looks bad when the body background is beige. Is there a way to force the whole banner to stay white but leave the beige in the .body part of the stylesheet??
Igonre the last two comments. I worked it out. And I'm reasonably happy with it now, I think. I still need to tweak the hyperlink colours and underlining in the sidebar and comments, but I'll worry about that later.
Looking good now - much, much easier on the eye :-))
Does look good Ken. Why are you staying up all night to do these things though? Sleep is good, yes?
Scott
It started pouring raining unexpectedly at about 2am here in Darwin, and I had to run downstairs to pull a mattress in out of the weather. Then I couldn't get back to sleep, so I thought I might as well do something vaguely constructive. I eventually got back to sleep around 5am and slept through until 8, so I got about 6 hours in total, which is enough to survive on.
Must be older men need less sleep. I'm getting 9 to 10 hours kip a night now, and needing ever minute of it.
Scott
I couldn't back up night after night and survive on 6 hours sleep, but I can do it for a couple of nights running and still function reasonably effectively the next day (as I have for the last 2 days). Overall, I still need to average about 7-8 hours per night, which I think is fairly typical for most people. I think you're right that you can get by on less sleep as you get older, but it hasn't become all that marked in me yet. But the slippery slope is bound to get steeper!!