Spring Break 2007
I forgot to mention spring break.
Girls gone wild and all.
Tivo Catch Up
Trying to catch up on the shows that I have Tivoed.
Not successful.
I did catch the end of the Tour of California cycling stage race. How they go 35mph in such a tight group without knocking fellow competitors over is a big mystery to me. Every time they showed the peloton, I cringed at how close some of the guys came to touching wheels. Yet, it was an exciting bunch sprint. Another one of those fast, but faster still endings. Loved it. I cheered. Can’t wait for the season to start.
Other Tivo things…
Supernatural is languishing. Battlestar Galactica as well. Heroes but that is starting to get tired.
Shopping for a digital camera
My old one had died sometime last autumn. I’m thinking about getting a dSLR, but I really like to have a small one so as to keep it upon me at all times.
Can’t really figure out what I should do. Or get.
Perhaps a cheap micro one, and a really nice dSLR.
Anyway, check out the reviews at this site.
In russia…
…the porno sites search for you!
Hilarious entry in my statcounter log.
The post not the new
One thing about blogger, when you save a post as a draft so that you can finish it up and post it later, the timestamp is of when the post is saved. Shouldn’t it be of the time that it was posted.
Because of this you may miss my post about the redesign.
Me neither
| Your Birthdate: September 18 |
 You are a cohesive force – able to bring many people together for a common cause. You tend to excel in work situations, but you also facilitate a lot of social gatherings too. Beyond being a good leader, you are good at inspiring others. You also keep your powerful emotions in check – you know when to emote and when to repress. Your strength: Emotional maturity beyond your years Your weakness: Wearing yourself down with too many responsibilities Your power color: Crimson red Your power symbol: Snowflake Your power month: September |
This is wrong. Except for September!
(hat tip to Margeaux)
It’s the new style!
I did a quick write-up on the changes at BrowserMetrics early this morning, but I don’t think it does justice to, if at all mentions, the design process I went through. After most design/development, I feel it productive to have a postmortem where the process and the product are evaluated for the good and bad of it.
Layout and CSS
In the late 90s, I worked in a web design company helping to churn out pages for lame ass businesses. We did everything with tables. This layout doesn’t use any of that. It is purely CSS driven. I am proud of that. I took me some time to find out how it works. Now that I do know how it does, I want to tweak this layout some more.
My last template centered everything in two small tidy columns that didn’t fill all the entire screen. I wanted to try to use the screen to its fullmost. First, the content area of the posts needed to be larger. It now sits fixed to the left size with a generous width. Notice, that when you enlarge the browser window that the posts don’t change size. That’s what I was going for.
The sidebar I wanted to consolidate. It was too cluttered especially my blogroll. I changed this by trying to shrink the lengths of the lists. Notice that more than one link happens per line.
Color
I knew I wanted a black background. This is to validate BlueRyder’s idea that this blog is dark. Just kidding. Black looks so much cooler or at least a non-white background. Non-white is my text editor at work’s colors for documents. It’ll make it easier to blog at work. Just kidding, again.
The color scheme I chose is mainly black and orange. Unfortunately, this is also the colors for the hometown birds. I have wanted to try out this color scheme out a long time ago, but never had a decent opportunity.
Did you know that the text isn’t purely white? It’s slightly yellow and it compliments the black.
The links are a subtle orange which also compliments the darker main orange color. It’s not the bright one I am used too, but I like it. I hope you too.
Sidebar Tricks
Check out the cache section which is autoatically generated via Blogger tags. I print especially via some javascript.
Mainly the javascript is used to add the ‘|’ after each link printed. For the archive links, I had to create a column effect with javascript. It’s basically every third link I don’t print the ‘|.’ So there’s some programming done here. I wonder if it is taking some time to do this. Perhaps some performance checks needed to executed for those who are still on dialup.
What I like
The layout. The colors. A new blog.
What I don’t like
The CSS. The lack of a proper footer (I wanted another grey bar to rest at the bottom.
New Layout
Since moving to the new, non-beta blogger, I had been wanting to update the site template. I don’t like the new templates offered, so I stuck with the old style blogger tags. I don’t get all the cool functionality that the new blogger offers, but that’s a trade-off I can learn to live with. It was a design decision.
In this new template, I learned all about Cascading Style Sheets and the old blogger template tags. The style sheet for this new layout is messy. It could probably be tighter, as could the layout.
Maybe sometime in the future I will learn the new blogger template stuff, but until then I hope they don’t change the old template tags.
Please let me know what you think of the design. Let me know if using the sight is intuitive. And please let me know if some things don’t work.
Leave feedback in the comments.
