Yesterday evening, I made some changes to the blog design. They’re not major, by any means, but tweaking the design from time to time really breathes life into the blog itself. It becomes a living creature — one that must be tended to by feeding and grooming.
What changes were made? Well, first, I removed the whole “grunge” theme. It was getting worn out (pardon the expression). I also updated the navigation bar and got rid of that awkward “ghostly” kind of bar. I replaced it with a sleeker bar and changed the hover graphics for the navigation items.
Second, I changed the links. They used to be yellow and would just lose the underline when you put your mouse over them. Now they’re gray and turn a dark red color. This is probably a bad change, but for a few minutes I had a gray/blue theme going. I might change the entire design to blue/black instead of red/black, or maybe blue/white, and keep the design elements similar… The possibilities are endless when you have a design where you can simply replace the graphics files and the entire design transforms. Gotta love that CSS!
Another change I made was the header graphic. I put a couple funky bubbles on the letters “S” and “R.” I don’t know why, but that’s what I did. The way the design works has the added benefit of putting a couple random bubbles along the header (they usually sit behind the search bar on a 1024 × 768 screen).
I have also made some changes today, most notably (and insignificantly at the same time), I removed the quotes around the list of categories at the bottom of each post. So, for example, in this entry, you would normally have seen something like:
In "Site News," "Design," "Blogging."
Now you will see:
In Site News, Design, Blogging.
It’s not much, but something in the way of “change” and “improve” and… er… “ameliorate.” You know, keep moving forward kind of thing… All right, well that will conclude my ranting for today.
