{"id":443,"date":"2005-01-11T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T11:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2005-01-11T04:19:45","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T11:19:45","slug":"explaining-the-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2005\/01\/explaining-the-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quickly now, as it is late (again.)<\/span> Here are some of the objectives I wanted to achieve with the redesign:<\/p>\n

I wanted a place to post shorter but more frequent entries about interesting things I find on my daily rounds of the web.<\/p>\n

I wanted a blogroll\/siteroll, organized by subject. I also liked how some<\/a> Swedish<\/a> bloggersUpdate 2004-1-11: <\/span>Jag gl\u00f6mde Enblogomdan<\/a>.<\/span> have been promoting new and interesting blogging talent. Hence a running roll across the page.<\/p>\n

I wanted to have all the newest information above the “fold” of the screen.<\/p>\n

I wanted to be more generous in linking out from my site, and give more prominence to readers’ comments and trackbacks.<\/p>\n

I wanted to dive into the deep end of CSS and learn it properly. This would entail letting the stylesheet do nearly all the stylingIf you’re using Internet Explorer to visit my redesigned blog, you might be wondering what on earth took me so long \u2014 all I’ve done is add a sidebar on the right into which I’ve dumped the usual blogalia. It looks boring, frankly. Well, that’s because I no longer want to design for IE, at least not for free and for me, so if you use IE around here you will be served a dumbed-down version \u2014 it’s perfectly acceptable, it lets you read my posts, but that look took as little time as possible and without any pretence of creativity or innovation. (Actually, it breaks rather badly in IE\/Mac.)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I wanted to let my preferred components dictate the page layout, and not vice versa. Among other things, I made use of the newly found ability in CSS 2.1 to style adjacent columns of equal height, as demonstrated<\/a> by Roger at 456 Berea Street.<\/p>\n

I wanted to avoid the overlong page, with sidebars that go on forever. The solution I came up with is to have the most important navigation elements but a click away at all times. Hence the floating “About” layer and search bar. I stole Dan Cederholm’s javascript from SimpleBits<\/a>. It’s still a bit rough (I’d prefer the ability to toggle styles, but have not explored this yet) but it seems to work in most browsers. (It’s turned off for Internet Explorer).<\/p>\n

It’s going to take me a while to get used to this new look, trim what doesn’t work, polish rough edges, do the other templates, etc… In the meantime, do tell me what your least<\/em> favorite part of this redesign is, or if it breaks in your browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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