Well I guess by now you have already realized that this site has a whole new look. Many of you were helpful in giving comments when I gave a preview of the new design. I am quite excited about this one and believe it will serve the site well. I decided to highlight recent posts and recent comments since that will help people find some of the ongoing discussions. I have also kept a large area on the main and archive pages so I can use that to highlight other things (such as the Purpose Driven Life discussion that I have highlighted at the moment).
I believe things are fairly stable right now, though I still have lots of work to do. Unfortunately I do not have a lot of spare time this morning so may not get to some of it until later today. Things I need to fix still are: misc graphic issues, a couple of dead links and the main archive page. I’m sure other little things will pop up too.
Comments (6) »
1. Tim
April 28, 2004
12:04 AM
I looked at your site today on a computer running IE 5.0 Have you ever done that? 17” monitor but a whole new look! Check it out sometimes….
2. Tim
April 28, 2004
8:03 AM
Tim - I have not. Is it all messed up? I checked it in Netscape, IE6 and Opera but since I can’t install multiple versions of IE I could only check it in the current version…
3. Kyle
April 29, 2004
7:22 PM
Looks nice. “The Buzz” thing is a bit cliche though.
Nice “blogging marathon” today too. ;)
4. Tim
April 30, 2004
7:16 PM
With IE5 you have a scroll bar at the bottom of the page and you cann’t see the background at all. The content still looks OK. You can’t even read my site on IE5. My sidebars stack up on top the middle section.
Have you ever run your site through the W3C Validator? Here’s the link http://validator.w3.org/
It will show you how many errors are on your page. I quit looking to avoid discouragment!
5. Tim
April 30, 2004
8:22 PM
Other Tim - I tested it in IE5 and it looked 100% fine. I found a place on the Web that will check it and send a screenshot of what it looks like and it looked just fine. So maybe there was just a problem with your version…
I have run this through a validator. I find they are really only of limited use because they are set for ancient versions of HTML. For example, they complain about any TR or TD tag that is set to a % of height. And so on. I’ve kind of given up. I write pretty clean code and as long as things work in Netscape, IE and Opera I’m usually pretty happy.
I do, though, apologize if the 7.6% who view this site in IE do have problems. :) For the .4% that use IE4…it’s time to upgrade!
6. Tim
May 1, 2004
11:59 AM
I feel the same way. I was looking at our sites from a computer at work. They may be using IE3 for all I know but I couldn’t imagine anyone using a version older than v.5.
The validator’s also hiccup if you use DHTML. I would like my code to be a little cleaner though.
Never tried OPERA. I guess I’ll give it a spin. I use “SlimBrowser” which is dependent on IE.