Finally, redid the template...

I had wanted to do something a little more distanced from the original template, something along the lines of this one... but not only was I not able to think it up, I find that the original layout, at its core, does look rather classy. The hover effect for the navbar was rather obnoxious and the colors needed work (though I think I might have a little too much pink now, much as I love the color), but it's a decent, crisp-looking layout. So yeah.

Still to do:

  • Think up a better title than "Shannon Crock's blog"
  • Add the credit for the stock photo somewhere, probably the bottom of the sidebar or the bottom of the page
  • Figure out why my individual entry archives still show the blog@case graphic rather than the photo OK, for some reason, this entry's does. It's just the one from the 14th that's the problem.

And I'd like to manage to move the title/subtitle down to the middle of the banner div without messing up my nice almost-valid CSS/XHTML, too. And fix the whole one validation error, which was probably the fault of MovableType's templates since I didn't do anything to the actual HTML coding except change the image... darn misplaced </ul>. Possibly try to bring it up to XHTML 1.0 Strict too, if not XHTML 1.1.

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/me hangs head in shame

Yes, it's true. I am no web designer. I am very bad at it. Too much left half of the brain; not enough right half. I really don't know what color goes with what.

But, I love what you've done with the place!

That being said, I did make sure everything I did was valid XHTML Transitional and valid CSS. The front page checks out (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.case.edu) and my blog, which uses the standard pre-cooked templates, would check out had I not mucky-mucked the HTML inside one of my entries -- http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.case.edu%2Fjms18.

All that being said, I love seeing what other people are doing with the design of their blogs. I think it is pretty neat.

Posted by jms18 on January 26, 2005 12:17 PM

*shrug* Well, I just know that there was the one bad closing tag, possibly nested wrong, and that came up before I posted this entry so it was probably in the sidebar somewhere. Ah well, maybe I did somehow mess something up a bit in the process of working on it myself... but hey, either way, just one error's pretty darn good compared to a lot of sites out there on the big ol' web.

Posted by Shannon on January 26, 2005 12:56 PM

Nice work! At least you didn't leave it half-done like mine.

Posted by brian on January 27, 2005 05:14 AM

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