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Polishing Things Off » Wed, Jun 21st 2006 6:57 pm

If you visit my site frequently, you’ll notice some subtle changes. Mostly graphical, but I’ve also decided to change the front page’s layout.

It used to display recent content from the “writings” category, but now it displays ALL new content (up to 3000 characters of it) regardless of its category. I figure this will force people to view content from other categories that would otherwise have only been visible on the sidebar’s “recent content” section, or by clicking the links in the calendar.

The design changes were a long time coming. I’ve had them done in Photoshop for over a month now, but never got around to actually applying them. I think the site looks like I actually paid it more attention now, whereas before everything under the header looked like an afterthought. Which it was. Heh.

Well that’s it. Thought I’d explain myself, and break the pattern of websites crowding the front page.

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  1. 1 Neil Kelty on Fri, Jun 23rd 2006 6:50 pm

    One question, Whats up with the bright green comments message? I think orange would be a little more . Let’s just say the green doesn’t go well. It’s like this wall of dark gray then BAM! Bright Green in your face.

    Are we reverting to our begining days here? Am I going to see a scrolling marquee pretty soon? - Just kidding…but seriously. Why the green? It looks like one of those colors I throw in the separate elements when I’m laying out a site.

  2. 2 Aaron on Fri, Jun 23rd 2006 11:36 pm

    Green is for "confirm" and red is for "error". They’re just colours I picked when developing my "prompt" class, which I use on more sites than this one. The CSS for the error messages got copied over and it’s just been green ever since. I suppose I could use orange, or I could just completely style it with imagery… If I’ve remembered by tomorrow, perhaps I’ll change it up winking

  3. 3 Neil Kelty on Sun, Jun 25th 2006 9:48 pm

    It’s mainly the "shade" of green that looks odd- but a graphic would looks really cool.

  4. 4 Tyler on Sat, Jul 1st 2006 10:28 am

    Your emotions aren’t rendering properly in IE. May I suggest something like this:

    http://tinyurl.com/hkxy3

  5. 5 Aaron on Sat, Jul 1st 2006 12:34 pm

    I’ve been using a routine similar to that one for a while now (notice the transluscent tape at the top of the photographs?) but I didn’t both making it apply to inline images. My smilies weren’t always PNGs, and I guess I didn’t think to change the script when I made them transparent. Heh. Fixed now smiling face

  6. 6 Tyler on Mon, Jul 3rd 2006 9:40 pm

    grinning face

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