New Skin for the Old Ceremony
As you may have noticed, I’m messing around with a new theme. Blackguard moved the site to a different server, and as a result I have access to some new visual options. I’ve still got some kinks to work out, but it’s getting there.
The downside? I’m messing around way too late and will be very sleepy tomorrow. Crap.
If you have any suggestions for a new color scheme, feel free to post a reply. Including specific HTML colors will make me your friend.
The new font looks a little smashed together, but I like the blue color scheme. If you want a custom backdrop picture thing (that being the technical term), I can whip something up… or something.
Bored at work as usual.
Yeah, the fonts do look squished. Going to tinker some more.
Feel free to come up with something interesting if you want. :p
I kinda like that menu on the left.
I like it too…except that it doesn’t list me.
I like the new change with the popup menus (so much that I may steal them). Lots of blogs have way too much stuff in the side bars. It makes it really distracting.
The only big change I’d make right now is to go from a fixed width layout to a liquid layout. I know fixed width is sort of the standard for blogs, but lots of times the content area winds up being small to accommodate things like 800×600 and when you view it at 1600×1200 it generates an awful lot of dead space.
Okay, I think I’ve pretty much got the site the way I want it. I’d like to change the background color in the alternating replies to a lighter blue instead, but these damn configuration files are a pain. In the meantime, the color doesn’t really look that bad.
I think I’d rather keep the blog a fixed width. It just offers better control over the space, so you know exactly what the user sees.
Tomorrow I’ll get back to writing game design articles. Honest!
I like the little menus on the left, too, but I’m too technically challenged to swipe them
The background color in alternating replies is defined on your stylesheet under the ‘alt’ class. It’s currently defined as #dec. You could try changing it to #8EBEED to get a lighter blue that has the same hue as your current background but the same brightness and saturation of your current alternating replies color.
Evan, you saved me! Thanks, I had no idea where that value was kept.
Going to try ADB4BB as my alternating color instead. Hopefully the contrast is okay for reading. I think it matches the site better. I’m tempted to incorporate the color elsewhere as well.
No problem.
Your titles on your posts seem a little scrunched up if the title wraps (as in your crafting post). You might want to add line-height:120%; or so to .post h2 in your style sheet.
Hmm, that doesn’t seem to be helping the scrunched text.
Okay, by reducing the size of the titles (they were pretty big anyway) I got the text not to overlap.
Wrapping headlines (i.e. your most recent post) is still overlaying the text beneath it. Clicking on “Entries (RSS)” gets me an error as Firefox says that “feed:” is not a known protocol.