Thoughts about redesigning the blog
Saturday, 27. December 2008, 14:18:07
I originally said that this design was only for December, but since I do not have another one completed at this time, I fear that I'll have to wait until after January 5th to redesign it.
This brings me to several points about how the new design will be, and hopefully I'll get some reactions to this and thoughts before I, eventually, implement them.
- I do not want to have the sidebar floating to the right. It breaks the design in Internet Explorer (for a change...) and it looks generally bad in resolutions with less than 1024 pixels in width.
- White. That's the background colour of the blog's content. The text colour will be black.
- I aim for about 800-900 pixels in width. Perhaps even 1000 pixels, with about 200 pixels for the sidebar.
- The form of the site will be much like http://www.ipwn.se (I really like that general layout)
- The font size will probably be 1 to 2 pixels larger (up from 11px), while the font family probably will continue to be Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif.
- The header will perhaps be... spaced out? I am not certain, I haven't given it much thought. Hopefully it'll be no taller than 200 pixels.
- Transparency? I don't think so. Perhaps.
- Much more structured CSS! All elements first, identifiers (#) second and lastly all the classes, not like the mess I am currently having.
- Better tags? Sure, I'll come up with something.
Any other suggestions? :-)
This brings me to several points about how the new design will be, and hopefully I'll get some reactions to this and thoughts before I, eventually, implement them.
- I do not want to have the sidebar floating to the right. It breaks the design in Internet Explorer (for a change...) and it looks generally bad in resolutions with less than 1024 pixels in width.
- White. That's the background colour of the blog's content. The text colour will be black.
- I aim for about 800-900 pixels in width. Perhaps even 1000 pixels, with about 200 pixels for the sidebar.
- The form of the site will be much like http://www.ipwn.se (I really like that general layout)
- The font size will probably be 1 to 2 pixels larger (up from 11px), while the font family probably will continue to be Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif.
- The header will perhaps be... spaced out? I am not certain, I haven't given it much thought. Hopefully it'll be no taller than 200 pixels.
- Transparency? I don't think so. Perhaps.
- Much more structured CSS! All elements first, identifiers (#) second and lastly all the classes, not like the mess I am currently having.
- Better tags? Sure, I'll come up with something.
Any other suggestions? :-)


Kittylicious # 27. December 2008, 14:36
Robert Jacobsen # 27. December 2008, 14:57
I might have transparencies on small elements of the site (such as text fields, buttons or the top menu), but I don't think it'll be on more than that. I actually have transparency on the sidebar on this design, but it's not particularly noticable.
Shaunak De # 28. December 2008, 07:22
Robert Jacobsen # 28. December 2008, 13:18
KisenoSky # 30. December 2008, 10:56
>.<
Robert Jacobsen # 30. December 2008, 18:52
KisenoSky # 31. December 2008, 07:13
I used 1024x768 for PC it didn't look so nice yesterday.
But its perfect on my Compaq with 1280x800 resolution ^^
Robert Jacobsen # 31. December 2008, 10:00