Puceronie

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A Much Better Look

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

I hope you had a merry time for this year's winter (or summer) solstice and wish you a happy new Gregorian year.

As you might have noticed, I finally put up a new layout. It does retain elements from the previous one (noticeably the platypus on the header), but sees a major improvement in color scheme. There might very well still be quirks here and there, but overall it should work fine.

One problem I have is with the header. It worked fine when I didn't see the Delicious bookmarks while working offline, but not I think it looks too huge. Perhaps I'll scrap the bookmarks altogether and replace them with something else. Or maybe try with only 3 bookmarks?

Anyway. If I haven't blogged in a while, it's simply because there isn't much interesting to say. :D I have quit my job. I received RPG Maker VX, Dexter season 2 on DVD and a PlayStation 2 (!, used, from my brother) for Christmas. The later was really unexpected, but I was very happy.

It has been brought to my attention that the platypus on the header image looks a lot like the Pokémon Psyduck. I assure you this was completely unintentional. Psyduck is, well, a duck, but with hands and whatnot that make him look like a platypus. My brother-in-law, who created this cute platypus, has no interest in Pokémon and merely followed my instructions (a goofy looking platypus). It even has claws and a flat tail!

Just a Few More Changes

Friday, March 6th, 2009

I've just made a few more changes to the layout, nothing big.

  • No more background color on <h2>
  • The navigation's background color is the same as the footer.
  • The sidebar and the content have the same background color.
  • I fixed some broken images due to my using relative URLs.

There are still fourthings which I know need to be worked on: the footer is ugly, the sidebar's background should stretch all the way to the bottom, the sidebar and content are a few pixels wider than the header (I still don't get that one) and, when you do a search through my posts, the content of the posts doesn't show up in the results. Plus, also when doing a search, the "Older Entries" and "Newer entries" links are showing on each side of the first post's title instead of being one line above.

Any suggestions are welcome. I might not implement them, but if it makes sense, I will gladly do it. You can also report broken links, naturally.

The New Puceronie

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Here it is, all live and green and blue. It is not perfect. A few things mentioned in a previous post are still left to be fixed, and I'll surely be finding new mistakes and improvements soon. For the moment, though, I will only try finding something to do with the footer, to prettify it, and add to the content.

Visitor input is welcome, of course. Just try not to be too harsh, I'm already nervous enough as it is. :D

Poking Around

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

*pokes*

This seems to work fine. Sort of.

I really just finished uploading the theme and making sure it works. There are surely still a few things left to work on. Just now I found myself on an unfinished page, with the content all in text form at the bottom...But this is a good start!

I'm still not telling the world "Come and see", because I want to arrange a few things first. Like this header image, which I don't believe will ever please me (except the platypus part).

Things left to fix, excluding some content to add:

  • Get new smilies
  • Finish styling the top navigation done
  • Arrange the category list so it isn't so far off to the right
  • Arrange the search form so I don't get an error. It must be perfect! done, except the JS part
  • Do something to the footer
  • Remove the "Welcome" message on sub-pages and add it on the index done