This Theme – and a bug hunt…

by admin on December 19, 2005

in General

What do you think of this theme? It’s the same completely differernt to the design I use for the site that holds all the podcasts. Too ‘hot?’ cool? Let me know and if the consensus is to change then I’ll find a calmer colour scheme then I’m on the hunt for a REALLY good WordPress 3-column design. This is the best to date.

Update: I had a number of emails sayingthe previous design was either too difficult to read or ‘hurt’ people’s eyes – so it’s been changed to this much cleaner layout. Any more comments?

Update 2: A number of you are saying the right hand column is overlapping the centre column and obscuring the centre section text. I’m pretty sure that’s a  problem associated with IE – will try and patch this later today.

Update 3: Finally got there. It was one ‘word’ in the code that calls the FeedBlitz stuff – down to me I’m afraid. Though I had to do some code validation I’d rather not. It should view in IE OK – any problems, give me a shout. Commenting is now on as you’d expect – and you can track fresh comments as well.  

Thanks to all the folk who provided guidance, assistance, code and gripes and in particular the following:

Phil Hollows – FeedBlitz geek and patient beyond the call of duty. Yes I do need new glasses Phil.

David Tebbutt – Inventor of BrainStorm and man of patience

David Terrar – for first pointing up the IE issue and being prepared to be totally confused in the process

Richard Young – for Mac input – we need you guys – Macs are the new IBM…

Nichola Ross Martin – for showing me that great design can hurt your eyes

Neville Hobson – for offering configuration assistance -hey let’s continue to row this WP boat together

Richard Murphy – succinct and to the point – as usual (hey Richard – where’s your URL?)

Vinnie Marchandani for making colour suggestions – sorry buddy, you and I ended up over-ruled on the original ‘hot’ scheme but that’s the community for you…and finally

Shamsul Azhar – for developing such a cool theme that just about everyone likes. 

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I've just noticed your new format, unlike the old site, doesn't have a blogroll.  Surely this is one of the cardinal sins of blogging.  I've read that some people won't cross post unless they see one on the site and get a feel for the community you are supporting. 

Now this is more like it, Dennis. That red look you had before made my eyes water ;) Nice work. 

Dennis it's changed! Have been away for 24 hours and come back to a completely different site. I liked the previous version. It didn't look like an "accountant's" site.Mind you when I changed to TypePad I chose a site which the majority of my readers criticised as being boring, bland, .....etc., which I suppose equates to a typical "accountant's site!  

Can't quite get there - I'm in Spain...but now we've got it recorded for posterity - I can send folk to this person's place of business.

Hi Denis,The one that I usually use is a nice litte shop in Jalan SS21/62 Damansara Utama (next to the police station).Great personal service, nice ambiance and good prices. Tell them I sent you. 

Vinnie: I'll get 'em on the podcast channel. David: Maybe on the about or services pages but not here. Shamsul: do you know where I can get good glasses, cheap?

Looks very good, but you should reinstate your mugshot to lower the tone a little!

Thanks Dennis,Glad to see you've worked out your problem.

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