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Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

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Recent Site Additions

Those of you who visit this site daily will have noticed a few spo­radic changes over the last week. This site (if you didn’t real­ize it already) is being redesigned in pub­lic (polite nod to Zeld­man), and as such you may need to reload the page to see every­thing cor­rectly. You might even need to reload the stylesheet(s) to see the changes:

The style switcher in the side­bar has been con­verted to images (rather than the orig­i­nal text for­mat), so it takes up less ver­ti­cal space and thus can be left vis­i­ble at all times. An addi­tional alter­nate color scheme has been added as an homage to Dar­ing­Fire­ball, Jon Gru­bers ter­rific blog. I hope he doesn’t sue me or anything…

Also added is a rotat­ing image on the home page and a few sub-pages. The script used to select and dis­play the ran­dom images is by Charles Dietlein, and it kicks butt.

Please com­ment on these changes/additions, and let me know if there’s any­thing else you’d like to see me try :-)

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Saturday, May 17th, 2003.

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2 comments on “Recent Site Additions”

  1. Posted by Adam on Tuesday, May 20th, 2003.

    It works well, but I don’t see the point of the extra: tog­gle type switcher. And the style switcher is the most promi­nent thing in the side­bar due to it’s high place­ment, and colour, when it’s really a util­ity isn’t it?

    There’s the pos­si­bil­ity of chang­ing the lay­out in the switcher, that isn’t done at all. per­haps a left-right col switcher?

  2. Posted by Dan on Tuesday, May 20th, 2003.

    Thanks for your com­ments Adam!

    Some­times it takes a sec­ond set of eyes to point out some darned obvi­ous stuff. I agree com­pletely with your style switcher points, and have done some reor­ga­ni­za­tion to solve the problems.

    The type switcher was more of an exper­i­ment on my part, just to try some dif­fer­ent things with chang­ing the type styles inde­pen­dently from the rest of the styles. It has now been removed (exper­i­ment finished).

    I’ve been play­ing around with some more com­plex stylesheet changes, but noth­ing has worked that I’m sat­is­fied with so far. Even­tu­ally I’ll add at least one style which changes the lay­out, rather than just the colors.

    Thanks again, and keep the com­ments coming!