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New Blog Look... Feedback?

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I've been at it again... hacking my way through CSS and my blog styles.  Here are my thoughts:

I miss the 3 column look, but it had display issues when there were wide pictures in the posts and none of the styles I could choose allowed me to bury the "Archives" section with the exception of this one. 

This feels cleaner than it did before when I was layed out more like https://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog. 

I love getting back my "recent posts" section now that blogs.msdn.com allows limited scripting again. 

I'm not sure if I'm sold on the colors.

Like I did before, when I'm done I'll post instructions on how I did all this.   

I'd love to know what you think???

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  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2005
    Plz, focus on content - not on look and feel !

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2005
    Definitly looks cleaner but I kinda miss the 3 column layout on your blog.

    Then again, with the new layout you can see more postings at a time due to the wider screen area for the posts themselves.

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2005
    <rant>For the next update of Community Server (CS) telligent systems need to get some decent theme(s) done by professional designers. The current ones are on par with Movable Types default theme when it comes to pleasantry (and/or readability) to the eye of the reader: They share the tag of being done by programmers (nice ideas that have not been thought through to the end, as can be seen in this layouts padding/margin issues in the left column) rather than designers (and no, I do not name myself a designer, only a reader with some light insight on the problems of this topic).</rant>

    Anyway, like TAG said: content is the king of blogs and thus I kind of find the left column way too overloaded (like most blogs though, information overload is valued more than simplicity), especially for short posts like this one. But I find this layout nicer than the previous one - I have to admit that I love the color orange unconditionally thought...

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2005
    Nice and clean!

    Two things:

    1) The link color just isn't all that visible to me.

    2) I miss the three column, too. I expect that I will redesign mine from a mostly 'default' theme to a three column one. I'll just be careful about the pix I post.

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2005
    'Calendar', not 'Calandar'. In IE 6/XP SP2, the Post Calendar pops up on a mouseover, goes away only on a click on the 'Post Calendar' text. I normally read your blog in RSS Bandit, in which I have JavaScript disabled. The calendar is on by default, if I go to the web page in RSS Bandit, and there's no way to turn it off.

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2005
    TAG: Sorry, I care about the look/feel of the page. I wouldn't have been writing a blog post during that the time I spend on this anyway since its just good background fiddling while watching baseball on TV.

    Brian: I'm going to see if I can squeeze in some top level menus that make the need for 3 column unnescary. Check out the calandar control, for example, that I've moved into a menu.

    Rich: I may end up back with 3 columns again. Who knows.

    Bjorn: Agreed. I would love some more good looking 2 and three column layouts that didn't make me want to fiddle like this.

    Mike: Yeah. I'm not sold on the default orange. I'm probably going to find a darker color for links. Thanks for the tip on the calandar. I'm just playing around now. It may not stay there. I may move some other stuff up there.

    Mike D: I just made it off by default so it reads better in RSSBandit.

    Thanks everyone for the feedback so far.

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2005
    It looks good except for the small glitch the other layout had. It has this really scary Gollum-looking guy in the upper left hand corner of the screen ;)

  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2005
    Something Scott C. said in response to my request for feedback on my new blog look struck a cord.&amp;nbsp;...

  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2005
    feel free to check out my dasblog skin - it's as simple as it gets. Makes mobile browsing nice.

  • Anonymous
    June 06, 2008
    I've been at it again... hacking my way through CSS and my blog styles. Here are my thoughts: I miss the 3 column look, but it had display issues when there were wide pictures in the posts and none of the styles I could choose allowed me to bury the &quot;Archives&quot

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