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New Look for a New Year

January 9, 2010 in Site Related by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

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The black and orange scheme the blog has had since its last visual overhaul began feeling stale at least six months ago (can’t recall exactly when). Deciding to switch from Mandigo to something else – in this case, Tarski – was partly prompted by a Twitter conversation about pseudonyms, spawned by a MangaBlog post about making your site more user-friendly.

Yes, this is the same theme SDS uses but I’m continuing to rock a right sidebar and orange color scheme like always. The back-end tweaking is mostly done, although I managed to knock the alignment off-center while increasing the width (I’ll try to fix this ASAP – it looks fine on a 1024×768 setup) and the Google search box wasn’t working so I reverted to the standard search widget.

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A New Design with a Suggestion Box To Boot

June 3, 2008 in Site Related by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 4 comments

This afternoon I finally decided to roll out a new look for the blog – it comes with an extra sidebar as well an option to shove aside both sidebars. (BTW, the theme is called Mandigo.) I’ll try to repopulate the header folder with fresh images but for now, you get the buggy from Pumpkin Scissors. In the meantime, you can suggest topics for me to write about using the Skribit box or update your Gravatar since apparently the comment system now utilizes that feature.


Oh, and for posterity’s sake, here is a screencap of the previous design. It lasted me over 17 months and hopefully I won’t get bored of this one because it took a while for me to find another theme that fit my tastes.

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Trying out a theme plus del.icio.us-ness

September 23, 2006 in Site Related by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 2 comments

I decided to change themes from Regulus to Cutline because it looks cleaner and, well, a lot of people on Wordpress use Regulus. I’m still trying to find a good header image so please excuse me if it changes over the weekend.

What’s really going to keep me busy tonight is fixing most of the images in the archives. I now have a hearty option of wrapping text around pictures but it seems the switch has defaulted most of the images in previous posts to be right-aligned. So I have to look at each entry and tweak the HTML appropriately. Sigh.

In lighter news, I have added a feed of my del.icio.us bookmarks in the sidebar. I started using the system about a week and a half ago in an attempt to clear out my browser’s “temp”  folder. So if you want to see what kind of news articles or other stories I’m reading, check it out.

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