Just 4 today, I’ll drink 2 liters of water, take my fiber supplement twice and walk 3 miles. And, no — I haven’t done any of it yet this morning. Because (as you might have noticed) I’m messing around with a new look.
While there were things I loved about my old template there was a lot that irritated me. The biggest thing is that it wasn’t “fluid.” Which means that visitors with a screen resolution of 800 x 600 had to scroll to see the stuff in the far right column. And that lack of fluidity affected other elements — font sizes were defined in a lot of obscure places so that changing the base font-size didn’t flow all the way through the site in a predictable way. It just wasn’t a user-friendly experience, either for me in maintaining it or for you the visitor.
This new theme (Seabeast for those asking) is specifically designed for accessibility and it makes those elements that are configurable easy to change.
So you’ll be seeing those changes through the day — and probably for a couple of days to come. Right now you can see some directional messages — those will either disappear or be replaced with the sidebar elements that you’re used to seeing. And (where possible) I’ll be playing with the header titles and maybe the order.
I’m still learning my way around this theme but I’d love to hear what you think about it so far.
Oh, and I wasn’t kidding about drinking, fiber and water — I’ll do ‘em. I just haven’t yet.
What are you going to do today? And what do you think of my plans?
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J4T I’ll drink 2 liters of water and keep moving a lot.
Hope everyone has a good day.
Hi FamilyMan — I hope your day is going as you wish. I almost destroyed E4T a few minutes ago. But thanks to the great guys at WordPress, I got it back almost immediately!
Hi Katiebird – the new site is looking good! I hope you had a great weekend.
Hi Kirsten — I did, how about you?
wow, love the new theme! You’ve done a great job with it, and it fits in well with the J4T atmosphere
Thanks, TechZ — I really enjoyed looking for it. I loaded about 5 other templates Saturday night while I was browsing. I wonder if anyone dropped in and thought they had the wrong place?
But when I found this one, I knew I’d found E4Ts new home. Then I ‘got’ to design the new logo (luckily the original banner worked perfectly) and move all the elements into the new sidebars. Whew!
And now — back to writing…
I’m very glad that you like it. Especially considering how terrific your blog looks and feels, your opinion means a lot to me. Thanks again!
Katiebird,
I did have a good weekend – it always seems short. Now back to work and feeling ready for an exciting week. I know how time consuming things like changing a blog template can be… your work payed off – looks great!
I know about exciting weeks. I’m hoping to have a chance to listen to my iPop-Ins sometime this week….
You’re too kind katiebird, I have to say the blog has a nice homely feel to it now, and yes I thought for a second I was in the wrong place, but a quick look at the banner and I know it was E4T