redesign in progress
Comments/feedback welcome. Have tested in Mozilla, IE5, and Safari on OS X; IE6 on Win ME.
I’m very fond of the dotted line border that CSS provides, but neither IE/Win nor Safari render it properly—they substitute a dashed line, which is much less aesthetically pleasing. Ah, well. Will think about changing to solid lines.
The rest of the gory details:
- I used the 3-column CSS layout provided by Blue Robot, and pointed to by Kieran Healy. I modified it a bit to meet my needs. (Smaller columns on both sides, some manipulation of the location of the center column.)
- I’ve installed two plug-ins; Brad Choate’s Textile, and John Gruber’s SmartyPants. I’m still on the fence about SmartyPants, since I understand that it presents some problems for people who copy and paste my text into not-very-smart e-mail clients or editors, but I’m going to live with that for now and see how it goes.
- I … um … “borrowed”… Kieran Healy’s drop-down archive menu idea, since it optimizes space well in the sidebar.
- I moved my blogrolls to the right side of the page, so they’d be more visible/accessible.
- I modified the main page template so that clicking on comments for an entry takes you to the comments section of the individual archive entry, rather than popping up a javascript window. Now that I’m moblogging (more on that in another entry), it means I can use the link on my non-JS-friendly Sidekick.
[Update: Turns out the relative positioning of the center column is messing up the Sidekick. May need to generate an alternative index page for use with the Sidekick; I think MT can generate two at once.]
There were probably other things I’m forgetting. More additions are coming, including some allconsuming.net info on the left sidebar with links to books I’m reading/recommending.
(This is, btw, an excellent way to avoid grading.)
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