Refreshment

[kingandy]

New website is up.

Thoughts?

UPDATE: Layout has been tweaked, moving the boxout over to the sibedar. I feel like I've cheated a bit by using a div to contain both the sidebar elements, but that div was there already in order to panelbeat the IE div implementation into behaving itself, so I've sort of taken two wrongs and maken a right since that div now has a more legitimate purpose.

As now coded, it would be easy to make that second side box appear on every page. Worth it?

Comments

[gowhonker.livejournal.com]

I don't like the merchandise & linkification bar being on the right hand side, it should be on the left. It gives the impression of crowding out the text that we acually want to read.

Also, you should mention me more. It's what people want to read about.

[kingandy]

Yeah, it should really go under the links on the left but I'm trying to work out how to do that ... given that box is of a variable size, I mean. I can set it to a fixed distance from the top of the page, but that's not so good.

I have taken your second point under advisement.

[myki.livejournal.com]

I agree with Nook… the links look weird on the right hand side…Oh and you need to mention him more definitely

[kingandy]

How's that?

[gowhonker.livejournal.com]

Worse, the bar now actually obstructs the text, at least when i view it.

[kingandy]

That may be a cacheing issue with the stylesheet. Hold CTRL and press F5 as you view the page, tell me if it's the same.

[gowhonker.livejournal.com]

Nope, no change. I'm just using a basic IE 6.00.

[kingandy]

Ah, I thought you meant it was still on the right but the text was flowing underneath it. :) OK, I've given those headers a fixed width, should work now.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I'm using IE 6.0 at 800x600 and the lower box on the left still obscures the text, even after a force-refresh.

The issue is, as far as I can see, the words "Merchandise" and "Linkification" - they're expanding the box wider than the space assigned.

Drop them a couple of point sizes?

[kingandy]

Ach, yes. That's due to me relying on the built-in header styles without explicitly specifying anything. IE headers are massive, aren't they?

I'll work on that.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I'm told, by those who know, that "IE iz teh SUXX00R!"

Or something.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

All seems fine now, by the way.

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Better. The quote text at the top of the page goes a bit screwy in Firefox when you shrink the window so that it doesn't fit on one line.

[kingandy]

Cool. Yeah, I was thinking of shrinking that text. The box there is actually a background image, it's the best way I could think of to do the floating title...