I’m a professional web designer who has resorted to putting up a stock theme on his blog.
I don’t have time to build a new one from scratch and I was getting so pissed at the last theme that I could hardly bring myself to write a post on it.
I actually like this one. I’ve tweaked it so that my little jester fellow is back. I’m going to be changing his clothes soon. I’ll probably do some minor color adjustments and stuff, but I’m gonna live with this one for a while.
At least until I get to work and view it on a PC running Explorer and I decide that I want to take up crab fishing for a living instead.
i love that you will be desiring to write more. i love when you write. and i don’t mind a stock design until you have time to do something you love. seeing as how much i love the gorgeous site you created for me, i can appreciate your wanting a pretty place to write. you’ll get it perfect for you, but we can all appreciate that you have a life going on.
love yew.
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Well, I like it! It’s nice and clean!!!
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Yeah, IE is a bitch. And I never realized until I tweaked the new work blog that these themes look diff in IE6 and IE7. I was running around the office looking for someone with 6 to view the damn thing in. HEH.
I have tweaky things about mine that need fixing, but I’ve been too busy to care. Or bug ya!
Hee hee. I keep thinking maybe I should not have gone to 3 columns. In the back of my head was the ads, no ads discussion so I went 3… just in case. Now that it’s live, I’m not so sure. BAH. It’s such a bitch to work on this stuff when you’d rather be writing or reading blogs, isn’t it?
I say design as you want and screw the IE users.
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Have you tried the Web Developer extension for Firefox? It’s a great way to tweak things very easily.
I didn’t know your last blog was broken in IE. What was wrong with it?
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Seems that by now, SOMEONE would have created a free online service that had decent software emulators for all the major browsers (IE4x, IE6, IE7, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Netscape, Blackberry), and you submit a URL (or raw HTML) to it, it runs it through the emulators, paints a virtual screenshot of what the site/page looks like in the emulator, emails or displays those screenshots so you can tweak what you need, and then as an added bonus, did the HTML strict validation checking and spit out that report as an attachment.
With the advent of virtual machines, seems that instead of an emulator, it actually could be running virtual images of Windows, Linux, Mac, AND have all these different browsers installed. Then the back-end script actually fires off a new instance of the browser at a specific resolution, then takes a real screenshot of it and saves it off.
It could also emulate cell phone browsers, blackberry browsers, lynx (text) browsers and show screenshots of what the site would look like on those devices as well.
Then it would also do screenshots at the various resolutions: 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1400×1268, whatever.
Then it would allow the submitter to check a box that said “archive this page as a blog entry” and auto-create a new blog posting on this site with the url, original source code, what the various screenshots looked like, and a hearty comment section where the submitter could note what they tweaked in the HTML so it would render correctly on THIS screenshot and what they had to do for THAT screenshot.
Then people could subscribe to RSS feeds for specific browsers or HTML keywords or CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) tags, so they could learn from others mistakes.
Then whoever came up with this idea would get rich because it would be the biggest thing EVAR and get lots of advertising income and people would donate $1 here and favors there, and then he’d finally get a pony.
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I’m *really* good at brainstorming.
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Um, I feel a little stupid amidst these techie comments. Still, I just wanted to say that I like the clean look quite a bit, atually
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hello – The desire to write is almost always there. The time or inspiration sadly is not.
Dutchy – I’ve woken up today and looked at it in IE on the PC and it looks great. So I really like it, too.
Winter – You just have to decide how much work you want to put into a theme to please EVERYONE. I say you forget about IE 6 and focus on the latest browsers. People who don’t do simple updates deserve to see wonky designs.
Killer – Except that at work *I* have to view it in IE or Firefox for windows (which is better, but sometimes not by much).
Avitable – I use that extension all the time. The things that needed to be tweaked were far more intense than a couple of simple CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) rules. Images were placed in the wrong spots, titles overlapped the background, the footer was often completely hidden by text or photos embedded in the post… besides that, I never got the javascript sidebar to work correctly, either.
Whall – There is a service that does a lot of what you’re talking about: http://www.browsershots.org. For whatever reason my last design looked fine on their emulator, but in reality was terrible.
Hilly – I kinda like it too.
Holy freaking hell.
How ghey do I look now?!? Someone already had the idea, *did* it, AND improved it by making it an open source distributed model! CRAP!
Now I gotta think of some other great idea.
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You know, ghey. aka, the non-homosexual “gay”.
Michael Scott: Did you know that gay used to mean happy? When I was growing up it meant “lame”. And now it means a man who makes love to other men. We’re all homos. Homo sapiens.
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I think this looks really good. No need to stress unnecessarily!
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I think it looks great. Building a theme from scratch is bit redundant even if you are a web designer. Taking an existing theme you like and tweaking it to suit yourself and your style is the best way to go I think. At least that’s what I do too.
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Liz – Thanks. the more I look at it, the more I like it.
Colin Brooks – It’s way easier to build on someone else’s work.
I totally agree that it’s easier to build on someone else’s work. I do the monthly newsletter at work and used a template for it. Since then I’ve been asked to do other newsletters for other doctors’ offices. But I’ll be the first to complain…you need a “next” button at the bottom of each page, or is it that I’m just using I.E. and can’t see it?
Looks good to me.
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