New Blog Design

Started by MeltingIce, February 07, 2007, 03:15:28 PM

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MeltingIce

Hey everyone, I just implemented a new design on my blog early this morning (around 4am  :-X), so I was wondering what you think of it.  I highly modified it from the original theme by adding scripaculous effects (click the open/close shelf button to see what I mean) and some extra content (Flickr photostream).

I'm not sure how many people here know a lot about web design, but I was wondering if anyone might have an idea why the content in the shelf jumps to the side when I click the open/close button.  I wanted something clean, sleek and open and I think this theme is exactly what I had in mind.  Heres a link: http://meltingice.net/?wordpress=true

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old_blaggard

That's really nice.  I don't know why things jump to the side, but the overall theme is good.  I'm working on writing an integrated forum/gallery/article system script in PHP and MySQL, and I'm going to be converting it to XHTML within the next month or so.  It's a bit of a side project, but if you would be willing to maybe give some advice for design and stuff (especially some CSS bugs in IE) that would be great.  If you're willing to, I'll PM you the link to the test site.
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MeltingIce

Quote from: old_blaggard on February 07, 2007, 03:33:27 PM
That's really nice.  I don't know why things jump to the side, but the overall theme is good.  I'm working on writing an integrated forum/gallery/article system script in PHP and MySQL, and I'm going to be converting it to XHTML within the next month or so.  It's a bit of a side project, but if you would be willing to maybe give some advice for design and stuff (especially some CSS bugs in IE) that would be great.  If you're willing to, I'll PM you the link to the test site.
Sure, I'm always in the mood for web design.  I love working with CSS so I'd be willing to lend a hand or two.

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king_tiger_666

nice... quick to load, and clear to see everything...

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old_blaggard

PM sent. It might have been sent twice, though....
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king_tiger_666

old_blaggard when your terragen site goes live.. pop a pm, so i can check it and perhaps link it to mine
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MeltingIce

old_blaggard: I think your problem is that you are trying to make some things do more than they should be doing.  You should put that form with the login in a div tag so that you can edit its properties better.  With CSS, try to avoid tables as much as possible.

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old_blaggard

I realize that tables are bad - that's part of what I'm going to be getting rid of in the next couple of weeks while I rework a bunch of code.  However, the top bar itself is in a div tag.
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MeltingIce

#8
Oh, yea nevermind I see it now.  To be honest, your best fix might be to make the background gradient a couple of pixels larger, then try adding something like:

.topbar form{
      margin: 2px 0 2px 0;
}

On another note, I just noticed that when you view my blog in IE, everything is aligned to the left instead of centered.  Not sure why to be honest with you.  At least its not all that bad looking.

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king_tiger_666

meltingice... you cannot expect much from internet destoryer 7.... as compared to firefox 2...

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old_blaggard

Yeah... internet explorer is the bane of my existance.  It's not stardized, and I can't test on it because I'm on a Mac.  I would just ignore it if 85% of internet users didn't use it.
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MeltingIce

Haha yea, to be honest, I don't really care what my sites look like in IE because I refuse to work with it due to such horrible CSS support.  I think I'll add a firefox button to my site  :P

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Will

The world is round... so you have to use spherical projection.

MeltingIce

There, I added it.  I feel like my blog is much more complete now  :D

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king_tiger_666

good old firefox button!!!!!....
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