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completely incomplete.
After a week’s worth of work, I’ve finished rebuilding my server. To mark this great event, a new layout was necessary.
Its a pretty standard blog type layout, but I’m happy with it. Some things may change over the next few days, most likely some colors here or there, but I don’t anticipate anything major. The things I am most happy with are that it scales much better than my old layout (all the way down to 800×600 without left-to-right scrolling), the CSS file is substantially shorter and cleaner, and it just looks damn good.
I’m calling this theme Imperial Cloud City. The way I imagine it, after the events of Empire Strikes Back, the Empire would have taken over Bespin and it would have been a gray and dreary time for the citizens that remained. For those that are interested, my last theme was called A Certain Shade Of Green and the color palette was based on Boba Fett’s armor. Yep, these are the kinds of things I think about while picking colors and doing layout.
The image used for the header is a b&w crop of a pretty bad photo I took during my last visit to Chicago. I uploaded the full photo to flickr if you’d like to see its entire crappiness.
Some notes about things: The Archive page now has archives by category in addition to by month, if you put a carriage return in a comment, it’ll show up now, and some new blog links have been added. Also, the links & such section has a link for Adam’s walk jog run web app and a button for the atlbloggers.net site. You should check them both out.
There seems to be at least one bug with (wait for it…) IE on the archive page. I’ll fix it soon, maybe. Otherwise, let me know if you find anything odd. Thanks.
Comments
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Thanks. I should have mentioned that you were my beta tester, but I forgot. I suck.
Yes, the bantha skull image is supposed to be there. I merged it into the background image after you last looked at the site. I had to keep something secret, even from my beta tester.
Be afraid of flickr, it knows all.
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I am totally diggin’ the new site design. Much more clean/crisp than the last one. Put me in the ‘Pronewdesign’ column.
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Yes. Two votes on the positive side. Thats like 50% of my readership.
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Love the new layout! I didn’t dislike the other one though, so I guess it isn’t necessarily an improvement, so much as it is a highly consistent likability rating. WOOT!
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Thanks duane. Consistency is important to me.
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Mrak
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:44:50 pm
I love it….and you.
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Thanks….I know.
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What’s the Roman numeral for nine?
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iiiiiiiii, right?
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Dark Master of Pants
Friday, December 02, 2005 07:59:48 am
Dude. I like the new header, but I miss the old design otherwise. And I miss you too.
Edgemoor
Monday, November 28, 2005 05:06:20 pm
Me gusta! Very cool design my man. Did you intentionally put the Boba Fett mask in the cloud on the bottom right corner of the top banner? It looks very cool there.
I approve of the new design.
On a side note, the picture that came up when I first viewed your new page was me and you dancing at my wedding. Seriously. That random flickr thingy is watching me.