New site design. Those of you who didn’t like the pink one (i.e., everyone) may not like this either. Once again my lack of design skill runs amok. On the other hand, now I can pretend that it’s minimalism rather than that I have the artistic ability of a rubber mallet.
Of course, as with all things, Mark was there first and with greater gusto, but if that was enough of a reason to stop people doing stuff then there’d be no internet.
Feel free to let me know if anything doesn’t work in Firefox or Opera or Safari. (It’s tested in FF3, Opera 9.5, and Midori, but only pretty briefly.) I can’t test in IE7 because IEs4Linux doesn’t properly run it yet* and it looked sort of OK in IE6, and that’ll do me, I think. This is graded browser support in the real world, meaning that my browser is Grade A and everything else is some letter in the Greek alphabet like omicron.
Actually, that should be “such as omicron”, there. Tom once told me that he didn’t like the TV programme “People Like Us” because it should have been called People Such As Us. Grammar is important, especially if you’re running an anti-child abuse campaign.
Speaking of such esoteric matters, it seems that Firefox supports the soft hyphen ­ these days. WhichisreallygreatifitactuallyworksandwelldonetheMozillateamonlyfiveyearslater.
Typography is important, too, but I don’t understand that, Richard Rutter notwithstanding. On the other hand, I have now used line-height for the first time ever. Eric Meyer, watch out.
It’s Friday night. Time for a pint.
This is almost as rubbish as the previous design, although considerably less camp. So that’s something.
Posted by Tony Whitmore on July 4th, 2008.
Wow. I’m overwhelmed, Tone. :-)
Posted by sil on July 4th, 2008.
I finally figured out that you have to hover your mouse over the little stars. I kept expecting a footnote, but was never bothered enough to say “hey you forgot the footnote”.*
Posted by Sarabian on July 4th, 2008.
well, it worked in the preview,
<span style=”color: red;” title=”therefore your comment preview sucks”>*</span>
time for a pint.
Posted by Sarabian on July 4th, 2008.
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: Verdana !important; font-style: normal; }
div#content {
width: 38em;
}
#places {
height:1.3em;}
#places li {
font-size: 100%;
padding: 2px 0;
}
and voila, the beginnings of a new Stylish script are born.
Posted by Phil Wilson on July 5th, 2008.
I like it, but then I’ve always been partial to a bit of minimalism. Good stuff.
Posted by Philip on July 5th, 2008.
Much less offensive, thanks!
Posted by David on July 5th, 2008.
The comments are all screwed up (Firefox/Iceweasel 2.0.0.14 on Debian Lenny).
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/7451/commentsyn1.jpg
I already tried enabling Javascript but that didn’t help. I’ll try with all my addons disabled later (don’t think it will change anything) and if that works then I will post again.
Posted by Hannes on July 5th, 2008.
‘Interesting’ design. I like the minimalism. By the way, can’t you place the search field near the top? No one will notice it at the bottom.
Posted by Binny V A on July 5th, 2008.
Looks nice(r).
Posted by mrben on July 5th, 2008.
I liked the old one better. Oh well.
Posted by MindstormsKid on July 8th, 2008.
Oh my goodness. what a beautiful design. you must be a designer. you totally did this on purpose ;)
Don’t worry, we’re in the same boat. Keep rockin the bookman font and you’re set!
Posted by Dustin Diaz on July 8th, 2008.
Shut up, Diaz :) Design ability is something I really do lack, I admit it…
Posted by sil on July 8th, 2008.
U r gay
Posted by Danny Preece on July 10th, 2008.
You are Joe Clark, and I claim my £5 :-)
Posted by Nick Fitzsimons on July 14th, 2008.
watch sun watch google no night busy
Posted by seewooduglyw on July 25th, 2008.
Tom is apparently against Jane Austen.
Posted by Matijs van Zuijlen on August 15th, 2008.