Sep 11, 2004

New Layout Happening NOW!

I’m going to try to set up the new layout tonight, so please pardon the mess.

[Edited, because this point became pointless once the layout was up and running]

I know I haven’t written much lately, but that’s because I was working on the layout. I didn’t want to do anything until I could talk about that and get it out of the way.

I’ve made a few changes to the site with this layout. The links page is now entirely text-based, and the fanfic recs no longer exist. The Old Layout archive isn’t here right now, but it will be.

I like this layout much more than the last one. That was kind of thrown together in two days, while I’ve been working on and off on this one for several weeks. I used more CSS and constructed the XHTML in such a way that I’ll need to edit it very little next time I want a new layout. As stated before, the ultimate goal is to be able to view the site in previous layouts by switching style sheets.

Speaking if skinning, I have exciting plans for this layout. Well, they’re exciting to me, at least. I’m planning on making several versions with different colored flowers, and allowing the user to switch between them at will. I’ll probably change the default setting often, too, depending on my mood. Once I get the last details of this layout tied up, that will be my next project.

I’d appreciate opinions on this layout- especially if it looks wrong somehow in your browser. Tell me it’s lame, tell me you like it, tell me the menu bar at the top looks really weird- whatever! I want more comments.

Also, look at the footer. I love the footer. So pretty. I love what I did with the links down there. I am easy to please.

Posted at 11:42 PM in The Site

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6 Comments

Frances at 2:52 PM on 9/13/04

It’s pretty!

Loden at 3:23 PM on 9/13/04

Thanks!

Guinevere at 10:18 AM on 9/19/04

I love the layout, very pretty. :) The “search the blog” sidebar to the right is all the way at the bottom, though. Not sure if it’s supposed to look like that.

Loden at 12:36 PM on 9/19/04

The sidebar to the right is at the bottom? Huh? Do you mean it starts after after all the main content ends?

What browser are you using? For me, it works fine it IE 6.0, Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera. I’m not able to test it on Mac browsers (though if you have a Mac, I may recruit you as Official Tester), and AOL is just crap. I’m not sure about Netscape, I need to download it and start using that as well.

Jeff Hume at 10:04 PM on 10/5/04

Very nice layout. I wish I had the graphics abilities to add nice touches to my layouts like your flowers.

In regards to switching stylesheets, I’ve always had that intention but it has never come to pass. Previously, my xhtml still contained a little too much visual information in it to do it. I recently re-coded most of it to get it to a point that could be styled re-styled easily. So, I may sometime get around to making a second layout, however, maintaining two layouts would add to the work when adding another component to a page.

Loden at 10:38 PM on 10/5/04

Thanks! The flowers were a paintbrush that came packaged with Photoshop Elements, so I just got lucky there.

I’m about where you are with the switching stylesheets issue- almost there, but not quite to the point where I can go crazy.