New layout
Aug. 31st, 2006 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo I've taken the plunge and installed one of the new Expressive layouts. It looks rather swish, I feel.
Things I like:
1. You can change almost anything through the CSS
2. Fiddling with the CSS is surprisingly easy, particularly if you've got Firefox's web developer toolbar installed so that examining the source CSS is easy.
3. I've already been able to adjust the text size to make it readable without lots of resizing - woo!
4. The form for replying to comments works much better than my old layout's.
5. Blue text for links in the main body, grey for other links. Between that and the userpics, there is enough colour to be interesting without being blinding.
6. Expressive has some really lovely layouts and there were half a dozen that I almost chose before setting on Urban Noir.
7. Having a link to edit posts from the main page rather than having to go through the toolbar on my About page or click into the comments.
8. Ditto for the tags. And adding to memories.
Tweaks still to do:
1. The grey link text is a bit too pale for easy reading - already spotted where I need to fiddle with the CSS to override this with a darker shade, though.
2. Possibly hide the tag cloud, unless I've got used to it by the weekend and can actually see a point to it.
3. Design a new header for the page to make it properly individual - I've already worked out where in the CSS I can insert this, so all that I need is to actually make it. Methinks Painshop needs some work tonight.
The list of tweaks will undoubtedly grow, but I'm already liking the fact that I can tweak and adjust the layout easier than I could with the old one. And the colours are much more soothing than the old ones :-)
Also, I am supposed to be doing some work but my email is down and it's boring work. Bleh. Is it home time yet?
Things I like:
1. You can change almost anything through the CSS
2. Fiddling with the CSS is surprisingly easy, particularly if you've got Firefox's web developer toolbar installed so that examining the source CSS is easy.
3. I've already been able to adjust the text size to make it readable without lots of resizing - woo!
4. The form for replying to comments works much better than my old layout's.
5. Blue text for links in the main body, grey for other links. Between that and the userpics, there is enough colour to be interesting without being blinding.
6. Expressive has some really lovely layouts and there were half a dozen that I almost chose before setting on Urban Noir.
7. Having a link to edit posts from the main page rather than having to go through the toolbar on my About page or click into the comments.
8. Ditto for the tags. And adding to memories.
Tweaks still to do:
1. The grey link text is a bit too pale for easy reading - already spotted where I need to fiddle with the CSS to override this with a darker shade, though.
2. Possibly hide the tag cloud, unless I've got used to it by the weekend and can actually see a point to it.
3. Design a new header for the page to make it properly individual - I've already worked out where in the CSS I can insert this, so all that I need is to actually make it. Methinks Painshop needs some work tonight.
The list of tweaks will undoubtedly grow, but I'm already liking the fact that I can tweak and adjust the layout easier than I could with the old one. And the colours are much more soothing than the old ones :-)
Also, I am supposed to be doing some work but my email is down and it's boring work. Bleh. Is it home time yet?
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Date: 2006-08-31 11:37 am (UTC)2) Geek.
3) Are we doing anything fun this weekend? Something that doesn't involve research in any way, shape or form?
4) Geek.
Love you.
xxT.
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:10 pm (UTC)Yes. Internally, I'm not getting anything from Outlook users and I can't send to them. Which is helpful. Gmai-wise, I'm up and down - frequently it gets locked on send without sending and other times it's just telling me to check my email connection. This seems to be an intermittant fault (and not Gmail's I haven't had any of this at home) that I suspect is related to my employer. This morning I was able to send an email to my work account (thus proving that I can receive external emails...) and ten minutes later couldn't send a note to someone else via Gmail. Grrr.
2) Geek
I am indeed.
3) Are we doing anything fun this weekend? Something that doesn't involve research in any way, shape or form?
I was hoping we'd be able to. The family is off at a wedding, so I'm pretty free. What did you have in mind?
4) Geek.
It's like telling me the sky is blue (er, grey...) or the grass is green :-)
Just had to send an important email via Da Boss's computer. Gah.