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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 08:06 am
the time has come to speak of many things....
To move into a more fannish, less trauma space (though I note that despite the deeply personal and moving responses from livejournal promising some kind of word last night, there was in fact no word of any kind)--I really want a new layout for my webpage.
(If this is not the coolest, coolest, coolest thing in the history of ever, I will--wonder what is coolest.)
The problem is, of course, my webpage is--kind of. Well. I don't do a lot *there*. It's more a fic repository. An archive--ish thing, if you will. It is functional and officially works in most browsers, is fairly easy to read, and is not stressing to update. I can, literally, update that baby in my sleep. To be fair, I was in a time period where my three priorites were:
A.) can update in sleep.
B.) do not have to learn Adobe Photoshop again for pictures.
C.) will not traumatize a dial-up modem (which I had at the time).
But it is not pretty.
Now, this is where things get tricky.
Historically, when I feel vaguely motivated to do a whole bunch of updates and changes, I make it--er. Unreadable. Or I crash it. Or I end up taking it back to notetab and stripping all the HTML out to redo it again into something easy. Or I go through a semi-goth black-background/grey-text/cream link phase. Please, in the name of God, do not ask what was up with that. I was doing that shit with frames. Though it *was* pretty. It was also kind of like some kind of come-down from an acid trip, too.
But *pretty*.
*thoughtful*
I really want to do a three-column for everything but the actual stories. Except--I have no idea what to do with that third column. Maybe random red boxes for no particular reason?
(If this is not the coolest, coolest, coolest thing in the history of ever, I will--wonder what is coolest.)
The problem is, of course, my webpage is--kind of. Well. I don't do a lot *there*. It's more a fic repository. An archive--ish thing, if you will. It is functional and officially works in most browsers, is fairly easy to read, and is not stressing to update. I can, literally, update that baby in my sleep. To be fair, I was in a time period where my three priorites were:
A.) can update in sleep.
B.) do not have to learn Adobe Photoshop again for pictures.
C.) will not traumatize a dial-up modem (which I had at the time).
But it is not pretty.
Now, this is where things get tricky.
Historically, when I feel vaguely motivated to do a whole bunch of updates and changes, I make it--er. Unreadable. Or I crash it. Or I end up taking it back to notetab and stripping all the HTML out to redo it again into something easy. Or I go through a semi-goth black-background/grey-text/cream link phase. Please, in the name of God, do not ask what was up with that. I was doing that shit with frames. Though it *was* pretty. It was also kind of like some kind of come-down from an acid trip, too.
But *pretty*.
*thoughtful*
I really want to do a three-column for everything but the actual stories. Except--I have no idea what to do with that third column. Maybe random red boxes for no particular reason?
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From:*helpful!*
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From:OOOOOOHHHHH.
*makes note*
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From:*intrigued*
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From:Don't you think this is representative of their business practices? A sort of metaphor for their many policy reversals?
I wish I knew enough about the guts of websites to help with your design musings.
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From:And yeah, it kind of is representative. *sighs*
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From:But. There could be pretty pictures of John and Rodney in the third column?
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From:Any hints on making skins???
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From:At the moment my site has a very stripped down look, but if you go to the updates (http://svendra.com/updates.html) page you can see what kind of widgets I've stuck on my blog.
I like the way some people put icons in their sidebar, you could do something like that.
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From:*goes to look*
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From:Seriously, I've been working on a site for over a year now and have got no closer to uploading or going live with it.
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From:I like the on-notice board idea. Or a more positive version thereof, like links to funny pictures of the Flan or something.
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From:I must admit, that if done well, I really like the light text on dark background. But it doesn't really work if you do #000000 and #fffff, or whatever.
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From:TICKY BOXES!
er, sorry. Tired.
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