New look
I have been trying to brainstorm a new layout for my site for the past 2 weeks, with little success. Today I finally hit the wall with the old layout and decided to throw it out and put up something quick and dirty to hold until I can get something firm in place.
So this is my interim design, Clean and Fresh, if you missed it the previous layout was called Persian Rug. I will be releasing Persian as an Open Source WordPress theme in the coming weeks, complete with imagery. And yes, before you say it I completely and utterly ganked Michaels brillaint font choice, and the idea of the number next to the title. For my purposes that is the permalink for each article and not the comment link.
What can I say, when you see something good, you steal it. But you always give credit. Thanks Michael.
Go ahead and leave any comments you have about the interim design, there are some aspects of it I really dig, and will probably incorporate into what will become the permanent layout. All in all, not bad for 2 hours of CSS hacking. Oh yeah, and I am back to no images used in this layout! Man I love CSS only layouts.
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Stroll on over and visit Michael
March 1, 2007
Oh, and the comments feed link is dead… :(
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Let’s see here:
Stroll on over and visit Michael
March 1, 2007
I actually like this layout. Could use a little cleaning up (RSS feed link is above Comment section for instance), but it’s really nice!
And I actually love the idea of the Entry ID next to the entry. Very THX-like… Though if you’re getting the post-ID, won’t it bork when you write drafts and delete entries and stuff like that?
Stroll on over and visit Rori
March 1, 2007
I did not see this oold version, but I see this one and I like it.
I love the post number idea.
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
It seems that there is something strange going on with my feed link for comments. Not sure what that is about.
Stroll on over and visit danithew
March 1, 2007
I like your new design Chris. Sometimes a person gets a little restless and needs change. I recently changed my overall blog design myself, making it simpler with tabs.
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Thanks danithew I appreciate your kind words.
As I said over on your site I like what you are doing with your stuff. I am hoping to get some of my art up again soon, as well as start on some new work. I was curious, are you using the technique from A List Apart for your tab navigation, or something else?
Pretty snazzy job regardless.
Stroll on over and visit k.
March 1, 2007
Odd, exact same path i’ve used yesterday.. only today it works. Thanks ;)
Stroll on over and visit Chris J. Davis
March 1, 2007
Hey no problem, at least it works!
Stroll on over and visit k.
March 1, 2007
Chris,
did you have a chance do repare those feeds yet? I’d like to add yours to NetNewsWire but it doesn’t fetch any data at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
Stroll on over and visit k.
March 1, 2007
Chris,
i have a question about the favicon. I’ve added the necessary code to the index file, but the favicon only shows up in browsers. I also want this to happen in newsaggregators, like NetNewsWire.
Did you use additional code, or how does this work?
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