Getting on with my life and thinking about things.
Well, seeing as I've been a lazy oik today (excluding finishing off painting some Redoubt ECW foote, and basing up the Renegade horse for painting next), I started playing around with the blog's template.
I decided not to bother with changing to another template, and widened out the existing Scribe template. Information came from "Tips for new bloggers", and I modified their 3-column layout into a 900 pixel-wide 2-column layout.
Next came a change in fonts. Useful information:
I settled on Verdana, with Georgia if you don't have that. There'll be someone who hates it, but, you know, it is just a font and it isn't as if there are lots of choices available on the Web.
Next came some pochling to get the layout looking nicer. A bit of work with CSS margins, and finally the border, and the requisite padding to move the border away from the text. And then a few minutes sorting out which colour code matched the existing post-separator.
I found a nice comprehensive colour scheme generator along the way from Wellstyled.com It even has some colour-blindness filters.
So much for the early night. A pile of work to look forward to on Sunday, before going back to work to do a pile of work.
8 comments:
Verdana is good, nice and easy to read.
I don't understand all ( any of ) the tee techie stuff, ut it looks better, methinks.
Good - it was worthwhile doing then
Nice work Aktoman - hope BG(it always looks best in black! tries the scheme generator one day
;-)
*g. I always remember seeing a spoof painting guide years ago. How to mix a dark red - add black, light red - add white. It went through to black - how to get dark black - add black, light black - add white.
Life was simpler then :)
Glad the tweaks work, i.e. people find it better.
It looks a lot better, AktoMan. Time well-spent, IMO.
John, I've been playing with the WordPress Theme Generator (http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/) for months now, trying to find a better black theme, but I'm still waiting on Yvo to sort some issues regarding display-width.
:-)
Yes, I like Verdana - typed my dissertation in it. Gone back to Garamond for the thesis though, like the 'old style' for thinking, but blogs - Arial & Verdana.
Nice - will need some tips from you then on widening my blog too!
Ah, Monsieur Garamond - good chap. Wrote my Masters thesis in his font.
I'd like more of a choice. Arial is dull.
Here's why I prefer serif fonts: Ill
Nuff said.
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