Wednesday Nov 29, 2006

Experimenting with a new layout

Posted at 01:38:46 pm by hari under Site management (301 views)

I'm experimenting with a new layout and a new colour theme. Please feel free to leave your feedback here. Some of the XHTML was changed and the CSS was modified heavily. In particular I thought I'd try and see how a left-side bar would work with the blog. Although this theme looks a lot like the old "grey" theme I used a while back, this is a completely new one.

The earlier gold-brown theme still exists, so I can always revert to that, but I wanted a change.

11 comments

Comment from: ray [Visitor] · http://www.lostaddress.org

I have nothing really against it, but I prefer the old look. Maybe I'm just biased against left hand sidebars!

Wednesday Nov 29, 2006 @ 15:09

Comment from: titanium [Visitor] · http://www.creativehedgehog.com

funny- I remember when left hand menus where in vogue, now it seems really foreign! The right hand bar is kind of more friendly for right handers.

Nice white, as well.

Wednesday Nov 29, 2006 @ 15:53

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Having a left-hand side bar seems more like a CMS website than a blog.

Hm... maybe I'll change it back, but for now, let's see how this goes. Maybe it's a matter of getting used to it?

Wednesday Nov 29, 2006 @ 16:23

Comment from: drew [Visitor] · http://trickykid.org

I kind of liked the old look as well. But I'm kind of getting tired of the same old looks for blogs and websites, probably one of the reasons I went with TextPattern and opted to remove all the archives, calendar and such, with just a quick search and browse option and a few links.

I definitely like the untraditional look but then again, my own personal sites I design for me, not everyone else

Thursday Nov 30, 2006 @ 00:00

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Thanks, drew. Yeah, many websites still use the left-hand side bar, but not necessarily blogs. By the way, my brother's blog also uses a left-hand sidebar.

Thursday Nov 30, 2006 @ 09:30

Comment from: Sudipta Chatterjee [Visitor] · http://sudiptachatterjee.blogspot.com

Looks ok: just change the top blue image: make it a couple of shades lighter and your blog will look great!

Thursday Nov 30, 2006 @ 09:42

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Yeah, I guess I need to make it slightly brighter. Thanks for bringing that to my notice, Sudipta.

Thursday Nov 30, 2006 @ 09:50

Comment from: tuxdev [Visitor]

It looks a little funny to me, but that might be because it is different. Oh, a left had sidebar is a lot less ignorable, which might be bad since a blog is all about the actual content with whatever on the sidebar as sort of an afterthought.

Friday Dec 1, 2006 @ 04:44

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Thanks for the input, tuxdev.

Friday Dec 1, 2006 @ 08:13