After every year I’ve kept a journal I retire it (I keep it accessable in an archive) and create a new layout. I’m coming up to the end of my second year of keeping journals at Frozen Truth . com and so I’ve been working on a layout to unveil on June 1st. So far I’m very happy with how it’s turned out, though there are a couple minor aspects I’ll be cleaning up soon. I’d very much appreciate it if you could take a look at the new layout’s demo and let me know what you think of it and tell me if you see something you think I should consider changng. Thanks.
This entry was written as part of my 43 Things goal to re-design my website. If you’d like to see more of my goals you can in my 43 Things profile.
12 comments on “Ready for the First”
Thank you! 🙂
(But damn you for using that icon! I have such a craving for coffee at the moment.)
Apollo, It’s looking pretty decent.
The title bars on the left seem a little jarring due to using the exact same image or something, but they’ll look fine once you actually have some text between them to space them out.
Thanks.
Yeah, the title/foot bars don’t look so hot when next to each others. In the other stylesheets I think I’ll do those differently, likely with different color for each category of the entries.
I love the show/hide layers. I didn’t enjoy scrolling that far down the page to find the main navigation links, though. Maybe you could put that (main navigation) section across the top and leave the other section with the toggle layers where it is.
Will you be making a PDF again this year?
I forget that some people would need to scroll for the navigation since even in a small window it’s on the screen for me. Thanks for pointing that out. I likely will move it above the “About Me” section, though I’m not going to have a top navigation with this style. Maybe with future ones I will. That’s the beauty of the transforming nature of style sheets and CSS.
I think I’ll pass on making a PDF this time because it would take a fair bit of work and I don’t have the software I did a year ago. I’m far happier with the writing I did this year, though, so collecting it somehow might be nice. Maybe once my new writing project is finished or at a point where it can wrap up for a while.
Does it look different to me because of my browser? I use Internet Explorer.
Compiling for a PDF is definitely a lot of work. I started making a back-up of some of my online writings to convert to PDF and I keep putting it off. I’m using Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional. (Hector got me a pirated copy with a keygen.) It works quite smoothly with Office 2003. Which program were you using to create your PDFs?
No, I made sure IE fucks things up as little as possible (It’s such a bad browser but I work to support it since a lot of people still use it. I highly recommend trying out Firefox, a small download that will improve your net experience immensely, at the very least making webpages load faster and leaving you less likely to get malware.)
The difference that makes the navigation not visable is window size. I have a 16xxx10xx desktop, and the standard is 10xx x 8xx so I have more space to play with but that also makes it a bit more of a challenge to judge what other people will be seeing.
I took the easy (also legal and free) way out last time making the PDF. I designed a website layout that would translate to print reasonably and the used a PDF printer driver (instead of printing to a printer it outputs a PDF file) and printed with Firefox.
I use Firefox on Hector’s computer. It’s good, but I think it would drive my mom buggy. She’s not very computer literate, and too accustomed to IE.
(Frankly, when I’m tired, Firefox drives me a bit buggy, too, since I hardly ever use it.) ^_^
I found Firefox incredibly easy to start using. Hmm… I didn’t ever think it had much of a learning curve.
LOL! I find it quite easy to use, too. It’s different enough from IE to make my mom cross her eyes, though. She’s wary of even the tiniest changes & very forgetful.
Also, how silly that I didn’t close my link tag.
^_^