Limping back onto the grid

by admin on June 21, 2006

We’ve finally got to our new home in Alcaudete but as this is Spain (where they do things different), it could be 2 weeks before we get DSL. At least we have a phone (+34 953 708 636). There’s just shy of 2,000 emails awaiting attention…most of which are probably spam so it’ll take another couple of days before I’m operational. Ho hum.

UPDATE: One of those pesky plug-ins was mungeing the site. Grrrr…..how it happened is beyond me but hey ho ’tis no more. Oh yes – there were in excess of 1,000 spam emails in my Wanadoo.fr email account. So that’s been binned as of now.

UPDATE 2: New theme – what do you think? I’ve used it as an excuse to tidy up the site and make it a little more pleasing on the eye. Ideally, I’d prefer to use a 3-column design but this is decent compromise (IMO).

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  • http://3ca.blogs.com/my_weblog/ Stuart Jones

    Welcome back. Great looking site.

    Like you, I have been having PC problems over last few weeks, hence lack of postings. Nobody to blame. Therefore, must be my fault!

  • http://www.ebdex.co.uk Manoj Ranaweera

    I like it. I miss your postings!! Glad to hear things are moving forward. I have also been trying with different formats – need to time to make my mind up

    Regards, Manoj

    Blogs at http://manojranaweera.blogspot.com

  • alastair

    the new look is very pleasing to the eye!

  • http://www.tomrafteryit.net Tom Raftery

    Dennis,

    the new theme looks great, well done.

    Congrats on the move – good luck with the connectivity!

    Tom.

  • http://biztwozero.com David Terrar

    Hi Dennis,
    Having lived with your new theme for a while, here’s my thoughts. I like the clean style and subtle colour scheme – very web 2.0. However, I’m missing the extra things and widgets that you had in the three column previous version. Also, you’ve dropped your blogging 1o2 page (I would highlight that, wouldn’t I!). In addition, when you arrive at the site to look at a specific article, through search or posting comments, you lose your right hand column completely – that means your missing out on tempting new arrivals with the other resources, comments, recent posts, etc. I would try to get a combination of this design style incorporating most of the ingredients of your 3 column theme. (I’m looking for a designer/developer who can do something similar for our new blog site too.)

  • http://biztwozero.com David Terrar

    Hi Dennis,
    Oops – in my previous comment, I got something wrong. Hadn’t spotted that all the right column stuff appears underneath the article and the comments. Maybe this is the way it’s designed, or an IE issue. If it’s the design, then the same comment applies because many people would miss that info.

  • http://www.accmanpro.com Dennis Howlett

    Can you be more specific David – I am trying to get away from the clutter that was a problem with Tiga theme. Also, there are limitations with using sidebar widgets but they can probably be overcome. What I don’t want to do though is go back to hand coding for sidebars when widgets give me plug in and out.

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