Out of Egypt:

new design - does it work?

The product of 3+ hours of labor (and Sarah's prodding). Hopefully it doesn't have the bugs of the last design, on which, of course, it is still based under the skin (even as that design was based loosely on one of the MT templates).

The parchment background was on the first page of a Google image search. The highly saturated picture of me was taken in Oxford, by Jonathan Kirkpatrick, our Junior Dean (a gentleman and a scholar).

At first, I just planned to finally figure out how to fix the problem with the comments page. I knew it was something with templates, but I just didn't know which one. After an hour's worth of experimentation (and five minutes in desperation looking at the MT online manual), I found out which one it was.

So tell me what you think of the design, and what browser/platform you're using (screen resolution might be good too). I've learned through experience the truth of what they say: what looks good on the browser you use, may not look good on others. But Camino is standards-compliant, so it should do the right thing, even across the PC/Mac divide. I'm not as sure about lower screen resolutions and font compatibility, however. And IE, of course, will be the dog in the manger. Microsoft's browser is appropriately named after a cry of pain. (I'd especially like to know if the newest IE is any better than the old ones, or if Microsoft's still playing the same old game.)

UPDATE: One known bug - the calendar will appear in the middle of other text when the window is too small. Something with the float property. Perhaps setting a z-index on the various divs will provide a workaround. (And don't worry if you didn't understand that. That was mainly a note to remind me to work on it. I'm going to bed - finally.)

Oh wow, Evan! After I got offline, I thought "He really ought to have a picture. That would jazz things up so much." But I feared suggesting anything else by that point. But anyway, it looks Fantastic!!! Well worth the three extra hours...And I REALLY like the lightened background design. So upbeat to be here now.

Posted by: funke at October 15, 2006 9:10 AM