Site Update
Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 at 12:39 am under Personal, Web.Over the past few nights I’ve spent some time doing some cosmetic and functional site updates. I revised the CSS (from the original Kubrik theme) to break it into an organization I am more comfortable working with. I never liked how it’s split into Typography, Structure, Lists etc. I rather have the code divided by sections like header, footer, posts etc. I added the menu on top which is powered by the standard wordpress pages. I’ve added some new plugins like Super Archives to power my archives section and removed them from my sidebar. I also added some more info to the About section like my bio and a list of the plugins the site is currently using.
I still have to iron out some CSS kinks on Windows IE ( of course ) and give some love to that sidebar. So if you are on WIndows IE and you notice there are some parts of the site that look kinda funky, my apologies. On the other hand, this will be a good time for you to browse happy.
update - I added Wuhan Goodies Comment Bubbles to display the current number of comments in a post ala Apple Mail. I also hacked Customizable Post Listings to show the gravatars and the most recent comment in the sidebar, something I’m still undecided about because it feels too lengthy and crowded. For those of you reading through RSS, come to the other side of the homogeneous web and take a look at it in your browser.Your feed back is welcomed.
Jun 22nd, 2005 at 6:02 am
I like the new polished look. I only have a couple of things to say:
1) The font in the comment form is really small: I have a pretty good sight, but I find it difficult to read what I’m writing
2) People who don’t usually read blogs, are kind of disoriented if you put the link to the comments next to the title as a plain number. I say this, because I adopted that solution on a couple of websites I designed, and some of the readers emailed to ask how to leave comments (but this might not be your case)
Other than that, love it! :D
Jun 23rd, 2005 at 9:29 am
Nice work! :)
Jun 24th, 2005 at 6:22 am
great update; i like it a lot
every morning i drink my coffee and klick on my auto-tab-coffe-blog-reader-button in safari–but your site is really on top. well, to be fair it’s the 35th which opens in a tab, but hey, it’s the tab i can’t wait to read. :)
Jun 24th, 2005 at 11:25 am
@nga
Was bitte ist den dieser “auto-tab-coffe-blog-reader-button in safari”?? Safari eigenet sich doch eher bedingt als RSS-Newsreader, oder habe ich da was verpaßt?!?!
@the rest
I asked nga about this blog-reader thing in safari. I wounder, what he/she/it means…
Jun 25th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
to Sascha: I just have a “Bookmark Folder” inside the “Bookmark Bar” w/ a-lot of blogs I read every morning; and on this “Bookmark Folder” I turned the “Auto-Click” function on … one click : and they open tab by tab in one window — i only have to cmd-w to close the tab I already had read. :)
Jun 26th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
You should try bloglines…it will tell you what blogs have been updated so you can save time
Jun 29th, 2005 at 8:37 am
nice color scheme and new template !!
What are you using to display the album covers ?
Jun 29th, 2005 at 10:31 am
i just added them to the wordpress links section which allows you to include an images as well.
Jul 6th, 2005 at 9:39 am
And how are you doing these flags, next to a commenters name? Very nice.
Jul 16th, 2005 at 11:09 am
Yeah, how do you do the cool flags, and what does a guy have to do to get a cuban flag next to his name? BTW, Happy Birthday, Melvin.
Jul 16th, 2005 at 11:56 am
sorry, the flags are determined by the country you post from, not by your nationality. thanks for the birthday wishes.
Nov 16th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I’m setting up a wordpress site and including a pages menu similar to yours. I can’t figure out a nice tidy way to get the blog included in this page listing as you have. I can manually type an extra list item following the function wp_list_pages to get it there but preferably would like it to be called up with the function wp_list_pages so that it would inherit all the wp classes etc eg current_page_item. How did you go about including your Blog in your Page listing menu ?