That was harder than I thought it would be.
I sat down at the 'pooter at about ten o'clock this morning with the intention of knocking out a quick template. It's now six-thirty and I just finished it. If by 'finished' you mean 'not really'. I cheated, too. I started making a template from scratch, but about halfway through it started playing silly buggers on me; the sidebars would grow, then shrink, then move around the page. I started off with a Blogger template, but I changed just about everything. It now has an extra, bonus sidebar, the page itself is wider, the background is different, etc., etc. You've got eyes, have a look. I set the layout up the same way I did with the scratch built jobby and after a bit of tweaking to get the sizes right, it worked like a beauty. I worked out how to do drop-down menus, but they were pretty ugly, so I got them in from outside as well.
I'm pretty bloody pleased with myself, actually. In fact, I'm so impressed with me that I just might touch myself inappropriately if I'm not careful.
I now have a great deal more respect for web designers and such-like. It's a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. I mean, have a look at this page, we're not talking cutting edge ummm..., stuff here. At least I'll be able to think straight when I look at this page now, which should help me start posting with some degree of reliability (and reply to comments). I haven't eaten all day, there's dishes in the sink from last night, I've got a headache and I haven't even had a beer yet. It was fun though, can you get people to pay you to do this?
posted by Dirk at 3:31 pm
7 Comments:
You've done a great job here with the new design. And so much easier to read!
Thanks Cb. That photo background was a mistake. In fact the whole thing was a bit of a dog's breakfast. I'm not finished here, yet, but it'll do to be going on with.
I like it Dirk... A lot easier on the old Mark I eyeballs...
I wish I could do a little bit more, but I'm html brain-dead.
Meh. Not bad for a quamby.Next thing you know, you'll be looking at source code on the sites you like and cutting and pasting into your own template. This is a slippery, addictive slope you have stepped on.
Colours. Easy to read, good contrast.
Layout. Readable.
I give it a 7/10.
Ranger,
they're thinking of pulling my feeding tube, too. It's good fun trying, though. Kust do it on another blog and when you're satisfied, swap templates.
CB (gunna have to think of something else to call Chickybabe if you comment here again),
I give up, what's Quamby mean? Apart from every second B&B in Victoria.
A quamby? Mate, it was a term used in SA to indicate someone who was unc-ordinated or "special". I meant it in the sense that you were semi-literate at PC activities, and you had achieved something usually considered out of the normal skill level of general users. As for it's derivation, well fucked if I know. I tried to Google it, but I got nuthin'. Anyhoo, moving on. You could call Chickybabe CHb perhaps?
Being a typoophile i loves seein' serif type at a size I can read like.
Lovely work Mr Thruster.
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