Anyone with eyes will note that I’ve managed to pull yet another new refresh out of this site (looks familiar, eh). I swear to God, CSS is both a gift and a curse to someone as perpetually dissatisfied with their work as I am.
Literally the day after the last update I was already trying to figure out how it could be better. I’ve worked around the issue that resulted in the background shifting as the browser window narrowed by assigning a background to the wrapper instead of the body. This resulted in the problem of the background not extending the full length of the screen, but this new taller footer fixes it for all but the one-sentence slacker entries.
I mentioned before that I was considering moving to a different column structure. As much as I want to, I cannot do five columns. 1050 pixels is simply to wide for anyone who’s not me. The other natural option was 3 columns, but I don’t see that being a satisfactory solution at this point either. So for now I stick with four columns and hope that I don’t need to redesign again for another, say, 3 months.
PDF said:
New stylesheet in October and it’s not even a Halloween theme? Punk.
Regardless, your best yet. Header is wicked. Not a fan of the footer though. Didn’t mind it on the first page which was long enough so I didn’t have to see it (at least with this post) but it’s really annoying as I type this.
Maybe you should do a 1050 just to give it a try. Never know, could be good. And revolutionary! REVOLT!
22:02 on 13 Oct 2005
Andy said:
I’m glad you like it. The header went live yesterday and the footer followed up this evening. I’m pretty happy with it so we’ll see how long it takes for the novelty to wear off.
I think I mentioned today that I was screwing with a Halloween one, but I like this much better - the orange was too much (it had a different header image as well).
22:19 on 13 Oct 2005