I’m a fan of some great sites — namely Backpack and Delicious — but I have to say that I’m not entirely pleased with the way they look. They function well and serve their purpose, but they don’t look all that great (more so Delicious than Backpack; Backpack just needs quite a few minor tweaks). Has anyone already done a sort of Firefox + userContent.css + URI ID styling of either site? Or will I have to do it myself? (I’ve already seen and tried to use one Delicious style that I found, but it doesn’t work correctly — menus overlap and such. I want something that actually works.) Any help?
Well, links to the two sites you mentioned would be good, I don’t know what “Backpack” and “Delicious” refer to.
May 13th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
You’ve never heard of either? My friend, you need to begin reading Signal vs. Noise among many other good blogs.
May 13th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
I really want to smack you for using the word “Bling”.
May 13th, 2005 at 11:23 pm
Bling.
May 13th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
Blingy blingage.
May 14th, 2005 at 9:28 am
Delicious could easily hold a contest to have people do a redesign for them. After looking at the code, they really need someone to clean house on the markup too. Talk about divitis, or however that is spelled. I would have to fully weed through their code, but I’m not even sure using a personal version of CSS would be enough. There’s such a mass of links on the front page that they should find a better way of presenting that kind of info so it doesn’t look like one big long list.
Backpack isn’t too bad. I might change the colors in the sing up area, but that’s about it.
May 14th, 2005 at 9:34 am
I think since Delicious is who is in need of more help than Backpack, I’m going to work on a couple things for it in my spare time. First and most obviously, I’m going to restyle it into something that is easy to read, use, and look at. Second, I am thinking about writing a Greasemonkey script for Firefox to add some context menu functionality to it (like when you click on a tag in your list of tags, a context menu appears that gives you a few options such as delete, rename, view, etc.). Sound good?
May 14th, 2005 at 11:06 am