blah blah new design blah
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.
33 minutes later
Wow. I’m overwhelmed, Tone. :-)
63 minutes later
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”.*
2 hours later
well, it worked in the preview,
<span style=”color: red;” title=”therefore your comment preview sucks”>*</span>
time for a pint.
2 hours later
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.
4 hours later
I like it, but then I’ve always been partial to a bit of minimalism. Good stuff.
11 hours later
Much less offensive, thanks!
13 hours later
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.
14 hours later
‘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.
22 hours later
Looks nice(r).
26 hours later
I liked the old one better. Oh well.
3 days later
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!
3 days later
Shut up, Diaz :) Design ability is something I really do lack, I admit it…
3 days later
U r gay
5 days later
You are Joe Clark, and I claim my £5 :-)
9 days later
watch sun watch google no night busy
2 weeks later
Tom is apparently against Jane Austen.
5 weeks later