Time For A New Look
As some of you know, I've been tinkering with a new look for the blog literally for months now.
It hasn't been a very high priority, and so it's just taken forever.
I decided it was finally time to roll the thing out, even though parts of the thing aren't quite finished and I haven't done the usual amount of debugging.
The main goal was to change things up visually and go with something a little more crisp after a couple of years of grays. It's basically a version of the blogHOUSTON skin. Three columns were chosen so I could have one column of ads (and basically pay for hosting), and one column of more substantive stuff. The first sidebar column main page includes a syndicated-feed version of my furl archive (daily reading that I find interesting for whatever reason), a syndicated feed from Brother Judd (where I contribute a little, and a site that ought to be daily reading for folks interested in politics), and a syndicated feed from blogHOUSTON.
Some of you didn't like the green last time I asked, but it was the best I could do given the predominance of the "Drive Friendly" logo. And those signs at various entry points of the state have always been very amusing to me. Amusing myself is key to all this, you know. :)
There are still a number of things I need to do, including: 1) a PDA friendly page, 2) updating the skins on the static, non-blog pages of the site, 3) other stuff that I don't have on a to-do list yet. (Update: Blogroll is one of those other items; I'm using a plugin to manage the blogroll now, but it's a work in progress, as usual).
If anybody finds anything badly wrong with the new design or it won't render in whatever browser you're using, please shoot me an email or leave a comment and I'll do what I can
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/30/05 18:09 | Announcements | Technorati
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I think your "Drive Friendly" sign is missing something, shotgun pellet holes.
That's the norm.
Posted by Steelsun @ 19:42 on 10/30/05
I would have expected a photo of a wrecked DANGER TRAIN tucked in the corner.
Posted by Tom Bazan @ 21:05 on 10/30/05
I think the text needs to be black, not green, and then it would look okay.
As it is, it's kinda painful for me to read.
Posted by Evan @ 21:19 on 10/30/05
If I went with black text for hyperlinks in the sidebar, though, then I'd have to add underline text decoration to distinguish links from text, and I think that just looks terrible in the sidebars. Ultimately, I decided avoiding that text decoration that I hate was higher priority, since I don't hate the green. :)
Posted by Kevin @ 07:33 on 10/31/05
Kevin: Looks great -- big improvement. It works fine in Safari 2.0.
I agree, though, that a few pellet holes in the sign would be a nice touch. :-)
Posted by Steve Casburn @ 17:17 on 10/31/05
Driving friendly is more important than ever in these desperate times, and encouraging people to do so via a weblog design is commendable.
Posted by banjo jones @ 09:41 on 08/23/07
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