A number of peeple told me that my site looked boring.
I had been wanting to come up with a radical new style, having been inspired by sites like Modern Life and an excellent list of 50 beautiful sites on Smashing Magazine.
After many battles with CSS to get exactly the right results in all browsers, and realizing that it would take forever if I wanted something unusual, I decided to try something simple yesterday. The result is now the default theme on my web site.
The main focus is the new banner, which is a bright "cornflower" blue (probably my favorite color, even if it does remind me of Fight Club). At the bottom of the banner are simple white all caps words that are links to each section of the site.
I decided to remove the page titles and the crumbs. I'm going to leave them out to reduce any clutter until I'm sure they're necessary.
The other major change is to specify a font size. In the past, all my sites have respected the browsers's preferred font size. Unfortunately, the default font size on Windows systems is quite large, and a lot of peeple don't know how to change it. The new theme specifies a default size of10 points small, which should make fonts somewhat smaller than in the past, matching most peeple's expectations, making the site look better with default browser settings, while allowing peeple to make the fonts smaller or larger using their browser's text size or zoom feature.
There's also an improved "page not found" page. If you mistype an address, you are shown a list of similar pages if there are any, and a list of popular pages if there aren't any.
As always, the site should work on all platforms.
Let me know what you think!
I had been wanting to come up with a radical new style, having been inspired by sites like Modern Life and an excellent list of 50 beautiful sites on Smashing Magazine.
After many battles with CSS to get exactly the right results in all browsers, and realizing that it would take forever if I wanted something unusual, I decided to try something simple yesterday. The result is now the default theme on my web site.
New Home Page
The main focus is the new banner, which is a bright "cornflower" blue (probably my favorite color, even if it does remind me of Fight Club). At the bottom of the banner are simple white all caps words that are links to each section of the site.
New-Look Blog
The other major change is to specify a font size. In the past, all my sites have respected the browsers's preferred font size. Unfortunately, the default font size on Windows systems is quite large, and a lot of peeple don't know how to change it. The new theme specifies a default size of
There's also an improved "page not found" page. If you mistype an address, you are shown a list of similar pages if there are any, and a list of popular pages if there aren't any.
As always, the site should work on all platforms.
Let me know what you think!
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