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More Site Tweaks

I’ve made some changes to the Com­ments lay­out on each indi­vid­ual entry page (you may need to refresh the page, reload the style sheets, or clear your browser cache if you can’t see the changes).

Now the Post details for each com­ment are listed above the com­ment, which makes much more sense, and I’ve also added an icon to each com­ment, adding to the brand­ing of the site. The icon is placed as a back­ground image with CSS, rather than clut­ter­ing up the page with tons of <img> tags.

The entire com­ment area (save the com­ment form) is now set apart from the rest of the page with a light back­ground color and bor­der, and some padding.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

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7 comments on “More Site Tweaks”

  1. Posted by Sunny on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    I had to check one of your ear­lier post with com­ments to notice the changes. Pretty cool.

    On a side note, I was won­der­ing what do use to power your ‘Con­tact’ section?

    Keep up the good work!

  2. Posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    Hi Sunny (I like the way your site is com­ing together BTW),

    I use a nice lit­tle PHP script called DynaForm (http://www.webligo.com/products_dyna.html) — it’s very effi­cient, easy to con­fig­ure, and secure.

    The lat­est ver­sion allows for field ver­i­fi­ca­tion, which I’m about to imple­ment (the JavaScript ver­i­fi­ca­tion is good, but doesn’t work for folks who’ve turned off JavaScript, so it’s not quite as high up on the usabil­ity scale).

  3. Posted by Sunny on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    Thanks Dan! The work is still in progress but I will start post­ing soon. I owe you immensely for the inspiration.

    I will put DynaForm to a spin and see what hap­pens. You are always here to guide us (within rea­son, of course) way­ward newbies.

  4. Posted by afrael on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    Nice Job =)

  5. Posted by Jeremy on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    Site is look­ing great Dan.

    I have been vis­it­ing daily since i saw your site on Zeld­man the first time.

    I am also start­ing to get into Stan­dards and all CSS/XHTML layouts.

    I am cur­rently con­vert­ing my son’s site from table based to CSS:

    http://baby.jeremyflint.com (table based)

    http://baby.jeremyflint.com/baby/index-css.html (CSS based)

    Keep on keepin on.

  6. Posted by Dave S. on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    Two usabil­ity points:

    The com­ment box at the bot­tom uses a minis­cule default font (8px geor­gia?) in Firebird/XP. CTRL + ‘+’ takes care of it, but thought I’d bring it up.

    The spac­ing between each com­ment con­fuses me. The last para­graph of one com­ment only has a single-paragraph space between it and the next com­ment header, and my eye tends to assume the divider line is the sep­a­ra­tor, not the space. So I read afrael thank­ing you for the inspi­ra­tion, not Sunny.

  7. Posted by Dan on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003.

    Dave:

    I hate get­ting caught at things I’ve already noticed myself :-)

    Thanks for point­ing out the font-size issue in Fire­bird; I had not yet tested Firebird/XP on the changes (I should just leave these things for the week­end, instead of doing bits and peices dur­ing the work day). I’m look­ing into it now.

    As for the spac­ing, I’m in the mid­dle of try­ing some dif­fer­ent things, but I do know it is an issue, and it will be solved by tonight.