So, a new design. This is actually the first one I’ve done in ages that I’m pretty happy with. I’m particularly pleased with the icons down the left and their hover thing, although I am a little worried that they’re Mystery Meat Navigation, but I like ‘em regardless.
The icons do jump a little when you first mouseover them in Firebird. Anyone who wants to give me a clue why this is will be lauded mightily.
I’ve also brought the browser experiments under the new design, rather than them being just plain pages.
I still need to do a writeup on how I got all this to work in PyBlosxom, but the sheer mass of all the complexity that keeps this website running is starting to take its toll, so I’m avoiding it. I was supposed to be doing it yesterday, but I was so damned sick of the damned damned Ice design that I had to do something else. This impulse has impelled me numerous times over the last couple of months, so there are a load of half-finished rubbish-looking designs around in my designs folder. This one I like, though. You might be stuck with this for a bit.
Didn’t have to change any HTML, either. Well, a couple of tiny, tiny bits, but they’re bits that were broken anyway, I think.
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Sam
The link to your browser experiments is a relative link, which breaks in some RSS readers... FYI.
Mike
The navigation icons just disappear when you mouse over them on Mozilla Firebird 0.7/Linux, giving no clue as to where they lead... Otherwise a nice design, we likes =)
Paul
Me like.
The icons are very good indeed. I might just steal this idea when I get back into the swing of things.
Ethan
Gorgeous stuff, Stuart--looks very nice indeed. Also having the same problem with the links disappearing onmouseover (Firebird .7/OSX), but I love the new look.
Simon Willison
Looks great, and the hover things make the mystery meat far from mysterious. You appear to have stopped pinging blo.gs though which is annoying because it means I'll forget to read you when you update!
sil
Simon: Hm, have installed the ping plugin for pyblosxom, so it should ping blo.gs. Not sure if it is, though, so I'm pinging by hand. TBH, I'd forgotten about blo.gs because I use bloglines to read RSS feeds now. Some kind of note on that and how much I like it is forthcoming.
Mike: Don't understand the Firebird 0.7/Linux problem; that's what I use and it works fine here. More investigation required, I fear. No investigation on Mac OS because I don't have a Mac, but I'm happy to hear about how to fix it there too ;)
Paul: I stole the icons ;)
Sam: the link to the experiments doesn't have a hostname, but it is a full path from the document root ("/code/browser" rather than "code/browser"), which resolves correctly relative to the RSS feed itself. Are all RSS links meant to be fully qualified?
Paul
I wasn't going to steal the icons themselves, just the menu idea ;)
btw, Does pyblosxom have a web client, or support an appropriate API? Whilst I can now access angel from work, I'd rather not use it all the time in case they notice.
Nick
Looks great.
Why does the afe section have a microwave for an icon? :)
sil
Paul: yep, it supports the Blogger API (there's a plugin for it).
Nick: I couldn't find anything better in the same style as the rest of the icons ;)
Very nice work, Stuart. It looks gobsmackingly good.
I have slight misgivings about the mystery meat too. Perhaps a small text label underneath each would help?
Still, very impressive stuff.