New layout
February 27th, 2005
Unless you’re reading the site via a feed reader, you’ll probably have noticed that I’ve been redecorating. I can’t take any credit for the new design - I just downloaded the style sheet and associated images from Alex King’s excellent page of WordPress Styles and five minutes later I was done.
I do want to tweak the style sheet a little: I want the links in the sidebar to be slightly more visible against the graded-fill background in places, and I’d like the links in the recent comments section to stand out instead of being the same colour as the associated text. Still, that’s a job for tomorrow night.
Obviously if anyone finds any oddities in the new design please post a comment or email me and I’ll see if I can fix them.
February 28th, 2005 at 10:11 am
Very pretty… Makes me realize how badly I need a redesign myself!
February 28th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
Looks great! I think it loads faster, too. But that’s only important to people like me who still use dial-up.
February 28th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
I think it looks great, so don’t tweak too much!
February 28th, 2005 at 11:49 pm
Thanks for all the kind words.
Mark, I wouldn’t have thought the page would be loading any quicker, since it’s using exactly the same template as before only with a different style sheet. Perhaps it’s just that it’s prettier to look at and that distracts you from the download time…
As it turns out, I haven’t actually done any style sheet tweaking tonight. Instead, I’ve been looking at style sheet switchers, so that I can offer you all a range of looks for the site. More on this over the next couple of days, as I get a chance to implement one of the plug-ins I’ve been playing with.