I had a wild hair and decided to redesign my weblog. I like it. I think I've got everything I want.
One thing I've learned in this kind of stuff is 'don't put everything back in'. Things cruft up. Ask yourself 'Do I really want that back? Is it worth the trouble?' Nice lean results.
It took a little tinkering. The places they hide some of these things are non-obvious.
If I could do one more thing it would be to have black margins. Maybe I can dig around and figure that out.
That brings me to my only major complaint: I don't like CSS. I'm sure it's powerful and all. But, for someone like me, it's mostly overkill. I have trouble finding the right combination of simple with some functionality built in and flexible enough that you can get under the hood and change about anything if you want to.
So why did I switch? Why don't I guy with something plainer? I like the added functionality of stuff that's built in to modern Blogger like edit from your page, email this post to someone, the new, snazzy, extensible Archives widget, etc. The trade-off's worth it to me.
What do you think of my redesign? I have switched to Blogger comments, so we'll see how that goes...
Wednesday, February 7
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Yeah, I think I like the new set up.
So is this the first comment on blogger?
Woo, me!!
Oh. Moderated comments. So maybe not.
Still - tenatively woo!!!
I don't like Blogger comment, my neighbor uses it on hers. And I was just thinking last night as I was leaving a comment over there, "Gee, I'm glad Meade doesn't use this."
Kathy
I like it!
thanks, guys :-)
sorry, Charlie. Jim beat you to it ;-)
sorry for the letdown, Kathy. do you think you might like it better if you went ahead and registered with Blogger?
Nice. This is my first time here so I don't know what it looked like before. I followed the link from Byzantium's Shores.
I'm not fond of CSS either. What's so great about a tableless site? I was using CSS but a while back (couple of years maybe) I decided I wanted to move the sidebar from the left to the right. I spent days tinkering with it but what was supposed to be the right column kept ending up underneath the left and stubbornly stayed there no matter what I did so I gave up and switched to tables.
Tables are our friends. Long live tables!
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