Facelift to Blog
I didn’t really intend to do it this soon. I had been thinking for sometime that the colors on the previous page sometimes lent themselves to being hard to read. Further, I was really wanting to move to a 3 column layout, so that I could have the subjects, links to other blogs, calendar and such all show up reasonably near the top area of the overall page and still keep the search and sponsor/advertising links up near the top of the page on the other side.
This morning I was looking at something, from an email and I decided to just give it a try. It ended up, to find the one that I liked the best I just had to pick one that I had experimented with a bit before. I really want to utilize most the real estate on the screen (in the window) and so many don’t, leaving a good 1/3 (sometimes more) of the space in the window to just empty space. This new one does just that.
I think it makes things very easy to read with the brighter colors on the darker backgrounds. It has a couple of extra features that I really like a lot as well, that are built into it with my having to add widgets or similar things. One thing I did notice and I am going to maybe try and drop it out - the ick green background color swirl beneath the links at the bottom of each post really doesn’t look that great to me.
One additional thing I have already started with the new theme - with the font size and the layout, the blog entries seem to go way down the page. In the future, I am going to post new blogs so they will show in full on the front page. However, as a few days go by and I post new entries, I will insert a More>> tag, so the entry will show the first two paragraphs and then you, dear user, can click to see the remainder of it. I think that it personally makes for a nicer looking page over all with out going on forever, but then again, based on what I see on facebook.com suggest that maybe that is not such a big deal. However, if it bugs me, I have the right to fix it - so I did. And to that end, the last ten post have already had such a tag added to them.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Dang… Didn’t think the new look was that horrible. Interestingly enough since I have put this face lift up on the blog I my stats have went through the floor, or rather to the floor. Guess it was too nice to be reading blogs over the few days. I know myself, I was out swimming and trimming horses feet and such as that and didn’t touch a computer until late last night.