Changes

After months and months of pondering on it, I’m going to be making some changes to this ‘ere blog.

They will almost entirely be aesthetic, of course, because I get fidgety sitting on any one style when I can change it easily myself. I say easily, but it’ll take me the rest of this week to get it close to how I want it. If work were to graciously give me a free day, it’d be done tomorrow night, but alas…

I’m foregoing the niceties of designing for IE6. You shouldn’t be using it anyway, its bad mojo. BAD MOJO.

I’ll also be saying ‘sod it’ to the traditional minimum-width rule, instead designing for a 1280px width minimum. I remember playing Eve on a 1024×768 resolution, you could hardly see anything, so if anyone has still got that kind of screen, go upgrade: screens are cheap these days!

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4 thoughts on “Changes”

  1. Halka
    03rd Aug '10 at 7:52 am

    @1280px minimum: isn’t the whole thing just ~930px wide?

    Anyway, keep in mind that not everyone uses their web browsers maximized. Either the wasted space at the sides is just too pronounced, or the main column is so wide that it’s hard to keep track of which row you are currently reading.

    • 03rd Aug '10 at 7:38 pm

      Yeah, currently its 930ish. The new one will be wider, and the main content column will be as well, but not so much that its hard to keep track.

      I’ll be making different styles for pages as well to emphasise the content more, since it doesn’t need dates, categories, tags and the like.

  2. Halka
    03rd Aug '10 at 7:52 am

    @1280px minimum: isn't the whole thing just ~930px wide?

    Anyway, keep in mind that not everyone uses their web browsers maximized. Either the wasted space at the sides is just too pronounced, or the main column is so wide that it's hard to keep track of which row you are currently reading.

  3. 03rd Aug '10 at 8:57 pm

    I had to use a 1024×768 screen for a little while at work the other day, it was like chinese water torture. Found myself trying to look around the screen because I knew there was stuff that “should” be visible, on a regular screen, if only i got the right angle.

    Do you want me to change that for you? I asked.
    “No, I like the thingies big”, came the reply.

    Big? It was like The Ring, I swear they were coming out of the screen…

    • 03rd Aug '10 at 9:00 pm

      Yeah, I get the same thing from a couple of people at work. Bad eyesight so they make the resolution lower… Which is just going to cause more eye-strain. Le sigh.

      Historically, I’ve designed Eve sites for 1024, since that’s the minimum you can run Eve at. But I don’t wanna this time. 😛

  4. 03rd Aug '10 at 7:38 pm

    Yeah, currently its 930ish. The new one will be wider, and the main content column will be as well, but not so much that its hard to keep track.

    I'll be making different styles for pages as well to emphasise the content more, since it doesn't need dates, categories, tags and the like.

  5. 03rd Aug '10 at 8:57 pm

    I had to use a 1024×768 screen for a little while at work the other day, it was like chinese water torture. Found myself trying to look around the screen because I knew there was stuff that “should” be visible, on a regular screen, if only i got the right angle.

    Do you want me to change that for you? I asked.
    “No, I like the thingies big”, came the reply.

    Big? It was like The Ring, I swear they were coming out of the screen…

  6. 03rd Aug '10 at 9:00 pm

    Yeah, I get the same thing from a couple of people at work. Bad eyesight so they make the resolution lower… Which is just going to cause more eye-strain. Le sigh.

    Historically, I've designed Eve sites for 1024, since that's the minimum you can run Eve at. But I don't wanna this time. 😛

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