After far too much time when I should probably have been doing other things, the weblog part of this site is now wearing the latest shiny new redesign. New features include .php file extensions on every individual file (instead of .html), comments associated with the entry archive (instead of with a popup window) and with the comment form layout from MT v 2.6, comments and trackbacks grouped together thanks to Adam Kalsey’s SimpleComments plugin for Movable Type, and all the other areas of the site are now individual weblogs (and thus searchable with MT’s search function). I’m also particularly proud of the all-CSS navigation tabs at the top- much thanks and everlasting devotion to Mark Pilgrim for the tutorial from which they’re based.
Still to come: get the stylesheet applied to the other weblogs on the site, clean out about 300 or so old files that are no longer in use, learn something about the .htaccess file and use it to, among other things, ban unruly robots, explore the possibilities presented by the other plugins listed on the MT Plugin Directory, tweak my RSS feed (right now it’s MT’s default template, which works, but is very bland), and get the long-suffering eliot to help me set up a feeds page like his.
Please leave comments if the new design breaks in some horrible way on your system; it definitely works in Mozilla and IE 6. It should work in Netscape 6.2. It probably works in whatever the latest version of Opera is. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it’s pretty decent in IE 5. I can pretty much guarantee that it’s gonna suck in NS 4. I have no idea about how it looks on any non-Windows platform- my stats indicate that a reasonable number of visitors come here on a Mac; how does it look to you people?
Whew. Time to maybe tweak a couple more things, and then go to bed.
It’s looking really great in Moz and IE, for sure. Very clean, yet lots of content. Oh, and the design seems to look best with long posts… so bring ‘em on.
I’d be happy to help you get Spycyroll set up. It’s not a user-friendly experience at the moment, but it is worth it. I’m so addicted to my feeds page, and I love keeping up with so many blogs.
I noticed that even with SimpleComments that the individual entries don’t get rebuilt when someone trackbacks them. I’m going to look through the support forum to see if there’s any fix for that. Also, the counts under the entry on the main page do not reflect comments + trackbacks. I need to fix that too.
Maybe after I get my depression of losing several years worth of documents.
Looks just fine in IE 6 and Netscape 7.
I like your design and colour scheme.
The grey and burnt orange works well. I like it.
Blog on!
Looks OK but a bit dodgey in IE for Mac. Your menu line (Main, Writing, Poetry, Hire, etc) messes up a bit. otherwise looks good though.