A Mini-Design Update

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05.17.2007

You may or may not have noticed, but I rolled out a few design changes shortly after I upgraded to WordPress 2.2 yesterday morning.

I changed the color scheme a bit. Went from a dark blue background with white text to a white background with black text. It’s not a major change, but I’m hoping it’ll help with readability. More significant changes will probably be coming in the next week or so. (I’m still trying to wrap up a few projects I’ve been working on for a while, so depending on how quickly those are finished will determine how soon I get to play again with the site design.)
I reworked how Comments and Pings/Trackbacks are displayed on individual post items. Previously, trackbacks were displayed inline with regular comments. Now, they’re not. They used to be included in <div>s, now they’re in an <ol>. (These are subtle changes, I know, but I’m trying to improve the semantics in the markup for the site.)

The way I’m versioning the site is sort of weird — and pretty arbitrary — to be honest with you. I’m calling this Version 14.1.0 because of some improvements I made in the code structure for my site template and some CSS changes that I made. But the reality is, I have no idea what version the site is at currently. Hopefully I can do a better job at explaining some more of the changes I make in the near future.

(Thanks, Matt, for the nudge to do this.)

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12 comments on “A Mini-Design Update”

Posted by Ben G. on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

Looks good. The dark on white body copy is easier for me to read. This text in the comment box though, is really light. I’ll email you a screenshot. I think it’s just the way *nix is rendering it.
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

#888888 to be exact) and that can be a little light depending on the type of monitor a user might have. I’m fixing it now!
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

Should be a bit better now. I’ve also changed the font and font-size. (Hopefully it’s not too overbearing.) Your thoughts?
Posted by Ben G. on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

No, looks good. You’re very good at design, no mistake. You know what I think is the coolest part about your design? That it’s a blog about stuff. And the word “stuff” is everywhere. I’d put it more places, but that’s just me. I’d be like “Leave a Comment and stuff”. ;)
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

w00t. Just pushed some additional changes live. Comments and trackback/pings only display if they exist (and if they’re allowed on an entry). (I should probably put a writeup on the site on how all of this was accomplished, seeing as the existing walkthroughs I’ve seen online are fairly incomplete.)

I also updated some of the verbiage based on your suggestion. Thanks again for your input/feedback.
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

here.
Posted by Ben G. on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

Looks good. The dark on white body copy is easier for me to read. This text in the comment box though, is really light. I’ll email you a screenshot. I think it’s just the way *nix is rendering it.
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

No, you’re right… It’s currently a shade of gray (#888888 to be exact) and that can be a little light depending on the type of monitor a user might have. I’m fixing it now!
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

Should be a bit better now. I’ve also changed the font and font-size. (Hopefully it’s not too overbearing.) Your thoughts?
Posted by Ben G. on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

No, looks good. You’re very good at design, no mistake. You know what I think is the coolest part about your design? That it’s a blog about stuff. And the word “stuff” is everywhere. I’d put it more places, but that’s just me. I’d be like “Leave a Comment and stuff”. ;)
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

w00t. Just pushed some additional changes live. Comments and trackback/pings only display if they exist (and if they’re allowed on an entry). (I should probably put a writeup on the site on how all of this was accomplished, seeing as the existing walkthroughs I’ve seen online are fairly incomplete.)

I also updated some of the verbiage based on your suggestion. Thanks again for your input/feedback.
Posted by Chris Harrison on Thursday, May 17th, 2007.

I just posted a write-up on how I reworked the comments.php file here.