New look: Clean & Simple

Posted on Sunday, 31st October 2004, 03:40 PM, by Chris, under Blogging.

Hello all, hope you are having a very scary halloween, I am: I’m doing DAS.

This post is about, if you haven’t guessed, the new theme of the site.

Since updating the CSS last time I have not been happy about how cluttered the site looked, I intended to change this to look cleaner whenever I got the chance. Since I am meant to be doing DAS it is the perfect time to do such a thing (also with an extra hour in the day today I had best put it to good use!).

So here is is. The initial “clean” looking chris-miller.org, there’s still some work to be done to make me happy but for now this will suffice.

Anyway this is just a quick post for that reason and to say whhhhoooooo (happy halloween).
- Chris

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  • http://mattgemmell.com/ Matt Gemmell

    Looks good dude. Happy Hallowe’en to your bad self!

  • http://solitude.vkps.co.uk/ Gary Fleming

    The general design is clean, but at 800*600 (still the most common resolution by a long way) there are large vertical scroll-bars. Sort it!

  • http://www.chris-miller.org/blog/ Chris

    Ok ok ok ok, I’ve added some javascript to the header of each page which will load a different stylesheet for systems running at under 1024px width.

    This will load a stylesheet which displays things slightly differently with the content being fit into 750px and the text size being reduced to 80% overall (to combat the gigantisism which a resolution of 800×600 produces). Other than that, it should enable everyone (stupid enough to be running their machines at 800×600 or otherwise) to “enjoy” this site.

    This better make you happy Gary!
    (Note: you will have to set the system resolution not just resize the browser window)

  • http://stween.co.uk Steve

    Some of us work at 1024*768, but never run a browser window fullscreen. It’s just a habit of mine, that the browser occupies the leftmost 3/4 of the screen, leaving space for other guff (often IM windows), without too much overlap. That makes me the awkward user who still has to scroll left & right to see all of the page, despite the natty javascript addition… ;)

  • http://www.chris-miller.org/blog/ Chris

    Ok Steve, I concur, I do the same thing especially when I am working on the PowerBook. The only thing I can say in rebate to that is that the content of a post or list of posts are available within the ~800px which your 3/4 screen would show.

    I know this is a crap excuse, but it is one you will have to put up with until I fix it tomorrow afternoon.

    UPDATE: I bit the bull by the horns (or something like that) and changed the template just now, that better?

  • http://stween.co.uk Steve

    Ah, yes, much better :)

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