Playing With Layout

I’m once again playing with layout, the urge to do so seems to come upon me every 18 months or so — apologies for what it may look like at any particular time today :-)

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13 Responses to “Playing With Layout”

  1. Chrystal Ocean on April 5th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    Hmm. Not sure I like this dark, stark design, though I sympathize with the antsy tendency which comes upon you. Have just finished a slight rearrangement of my blog. (Moved the bios to the bottom of the page.)

  2. pogge on April 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Playing With Layout

    Is that like running with scissors?

  3. stageleft on April 5th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

    @Chrystal Ocean Stark: blunt: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; “the blunt truth”; “the crude facts”

    I like stark…. it’s all about the words on the page with as little to distract from them as possible.

    @pogge Almost…. there is certainly a large amount of mental pain involved in going through theme code and adding in what the developer missed — just who would develop a theme that didn’t identify a post author or include simple things like text wrapping around images or block quotes anyway?

    As soon as the bunker blog0sphere take over is complete the new head of the “Blog Layout & Theme Guild” will have some pointed words for developers I can assure you :-)

  4. JimBobby on April 5th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    How much for them “Advertise Here” spots?

  5. stageleft on April 5th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    They are soon gonna disappear JimBobby, I’m either gonna replace them with “mini-posts” or my Twitter feed…. well, unless you want to buy them that is – make us an offer :-)

  6. Canuckguy on April 6th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Don’t like it.
    Don’t like change I guess.
    Hmmm, I guess that is the conservative streak in me.

  7. Peter on April 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    I was thinking the same thing, Canuckguy. Not only does it undermine human dignity, it completely ignores the wisdom of our forefathers, makes a mockery of our collective heritage and will no doubt hasten the end of civilization as we know it. Besides, black and grey suck together.

  8. stageleft on April 6th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Pft… like I’m gonna be concerned about what a couple of people without gravatars think ;-)

    PS: I do like the idea of “the end of civilization as we know it” though.

  9. Nastyboy on April 6th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    I fear change.

  10. stageleft on April 6th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    I fear (and loath) the ugly brown border that appeared around the place at screen resolutions higher than 1024×768 in the last theme I tried — which is why the old layout is back.

    …. I can’t believe none of you told me about that, seriously folks, it was there for almost two days and nobody said a word — wtf is up with that anyway?

  11. Frank Frink on April 6th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    wtf is up with that anyway?

    Best guess is that no one was looking at it with screen resolutions higher than 1024×768

  12. balbulican on April 7th, 2009 at 6:19 am

    Naw, we were snickering behind your back.

  13. Treehugger on April 7th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Well, that was easy. Back to the good old look I see.

    At least the process isn’t like once was, when we would have the site down for hours at at time. :)

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