Snooze Button Dreams
Snooze Button Dreams
Snooze Button Dreams
January 31, 2004
How's that look?
(Category: Weblog Stuff )

I've gone ahead and implemented the black & white design that Rob worked up for me. Pretty sexy, eh? I love those clocks!

Don't worry, Rob. I saved everything before I started mucking about.

UPDATE: Had some problems to start but I got those fixed with MojoMark's tip. Have some problems now pointed out by Mog. The comments and individual archives still have the old styling. Not much I can do about that at the moment seeing as I'm pretty inept at design stuff. I tried switching stuff in and out but it didn't work (reference previous statement of general ineptitude). For now, just enjoy the beautiful clockworks on the main page and consider the other pages a tribute to a venerable warrior that served honorably and continues stolidly onward despite knowing his doom approaches.

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Comments

Love the clocks in the posts, very snazzy. They remind me of clocks.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at January 31, 2004 12:00 PM

In Firebird .7, clicking on the Comments link opens a new window like normal, but also changes the base screen to the same comments content.

Posted by: MojoMark at January 31, 2004 12:22 PM

But I do like the new look!

Posted by: MojoMark at January 31, 2004 12:22 PM

MojoMark - weird, it's the same in Mozilla 1.6.

Not sure why; I took a quick look at the HTML and it looks right to me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 31, 2004 12:57 PM

Me too--maybe I'll come back in IE and see what happpens..
And Jim, I miss the teal!!!!!

Posted by: Susie at January 31, 2004 01:22 PM

Well, well--it's a bug, not a feature...doing it with IE too...

Posted by: Susie at January 31, 2004 01:23 PM

there is a line break between the "return" and the "false" on the comments onClick event. seems to interpret it poorly. see trackback, it works fine.

Posted by: MojoMark at January 31, 2004 03:21 PM

Wow, pretty embarrassing for the QA guy, eh?

That was it, Mark. All fixed now, folks.

My thanks and 2 points to MojoMark!

Posted by: Jim at January 31, 2004 03:34 PM

is good. me like.

Posted by: Trey Givens at January 31, 2004 03:43 PM

Very Nice.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at January 31, 2004 03:52 PM

I wanted the blue and orange one! Can't you make it a skin?

Posted by: ilyka at January 31, 2004 05:57 PM

Skins are the plan but that's beyond my meager abilities. Black & White had the hover fix for the collapsable lists already in the stylesheet so I went with that one.

Posted by: Jim at January 31, 2004 07:22 PM

Very nice work! The clocks in the blog body look terrific.

Posted by: Jess at January 31, 2004 08:13 PM

Don't forget to set your background colour ;-)

body{
line-height: 1;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
background-color: white;
}

Posted by: snafu at January 31, 2004 10:45 PM

Awesome look!!!!! Black and white work for me. I also LOVE the clocks. Keep up the great writing. I read everyday :)

Posted by: Linda at January 31, 2004 11:03 PM

I love it. Well done. One tiny criticsm, and please don't be angry-the text is awfully narrow and in a small font. Me have headache from tiny text. Me also have hangover, so possibly the two are related.

Posted by: Helen at February 1, 2004 01:37 PM

God lord ... I'm out of it for a little while and every ones getting delusions of grandeur.

Jim, there are templates worked up for the comment pages which apply the styling but there's the whole blog.mu.nu issue to work round (that ones been givin me big ole headaches recently)

There's also the 3rd design and the skinable script which is ready to roll out but I'm just not sure how to mod it to work with the other mu.nu blogs ... plus I'll need FTP access to do it properly (well quickly).

I'll send you an email tomorrow when I'm not covered in paint (long story) and have a desk (equally long story)

Posted by: Rob at February 1, 2004 04:24 PM

oh and helen - I'm working on a spacing fix for the text - you're right, probably too tight!

Posted by: Rob at February 1, 2004 04:25 PM

All this ticking. First Helen with her Keifer Sutherland, now this! Tic, toc, tic, toc...

Posted by: Simon at February 2, 2004 05:06 AM

That's right. Kiefer and I started all of this. That's for sure.

Posted by: Helen at February 2, 2004 08:04 AM

Cool look, but I miss the simplicity of the old design. I'll be happy, though, as long as the cow picture is somewhere. WHERE'D YOU PUT THE COW PICTURE?!

Posted by: Mike the Marine at February 2, 2004 08:54 AM

About time. looks good.

Posted by: pylorns at February 2, 2004 09:40 AM

The cow has been recovered. It's linked in the "about me" section of the sidebar.

Posted by: Jim at February 2, 2004 10:12 AM

Since you asked...

The line spacing makes it a bit difficult to read anything longer than three or four sentences. [check the line spacing in the comments]

This is just a personal preference, but I think that a sans serif font is a little easier to read. [again, check the font in the comments]

A nice roll-down script for your comments and extended entries would be a nice addition to make it a more reader-friendly site. I just hate waiting for the comment box to open, open a new window that I will have to close, switching back and forth between another window, etc.

Other than that a very nice design... kudos to Mr Rob!

Posted by: The Bartender at February 3, 2004 05:17 PM

Pretty. Not pink enough, but pretty. :)

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