Reimplemented my site. Love to hear your thoughts.

  • I recently reimplemented my site design from scratch starting from a blank slate provided by the Yahoo! User Interface Library. I’ve tested it using Firefox and Safari on Mac OS X, but would like your opinions on your platforms.

    While the site looks quite similar to how it did earlier, I’ve added a few new things:

    1. Fancy (and heavy) archives using the snazzy archive plugin.
    2. Different styling for my small entries pulled in from Twitter.
    3. Sometimes show related posts using the YARP plugin.

    Have a look and I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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  • That is a nice looking site. Very clean. I live the use of the gallery lightbox. How did you do that? I would love to know.

    Thread Starter wahgnube

    (@wahgnube)

    Thanks Matt, I am glad you like my journal! Could you tell me what platform (browser/OS) you used to visit it? Did you find the site responsive and smooth or did it feel sluggish?

    I don’t use Lightbox for my photographs, but instead use a JavaScript package called FancyZoom to achieve that animated zoom effect.

    It is easy to add to your own site. Download the package, unzip it and upload it to your server. Add a couple of lines to your WordPress theme header to include the JavaScript, and one more line to your body tag, and that’s it! Images you’ve linked to will now zoom.

    Follow the instructions on the download site I’ve linked to for more detailed instructions.

    Very nice theme and cleanly represented. I am using firefox, WinXP and it is loading good.

    Firefox and Mac and it loads good and very smooth. Good work.

    Fancyzoom works beautifully. Thanks.

    Thread Starter wahgnube

    (@wahgnube)

    Thank you for your feedback, Ryan and Matt.

    And you’re welcome, Matt.

    hi wahgnube, Re your Archives
    – in IE – looking good where December to January of each year look to be available due the horizontal scrollbar on browser. This makes it easier to know at a glance that I could see the earlier months to the right
    – in FF, Google Chrome and Safari – can only see December to June (FF), December to February (Google, Safari) of each year but cannot see where I could scroll horizontally to see January. It was only when I reached way down the bottom of the content block, year 2002, that I could see horizontal scrollbar which looks as if Archves is in an iframe

    Thread Starter wahgnube

    (@wahgnube)

    Yes mercime, that bothers me too. I will try to force the rendering of a scroll bar for starters, but I also find that page very heavy (like several hundred KB heavy). I have thought of the following plan to get around that:

    1. Split it by year and make each year its own page.
    2. Split each year into 6 month halves.

    So one year, say /archives/2009/ ought to look like something like this:

    2009  Jan .... Jun
       [] ....  []

2009  Jul .... Dec
       [] ....  []

    The plugin that generates these archives is quite hairy, but I intend on digging into it to implement it as I’ve laid out.

    Thread Starter wahgnube

    (@wahgnube)

    And oh, I thought I’d ask: Is anyone else interested in this theme? If you are, I could clean it up of site-specific things and release it under the GPL.

    Characteristic tags: white, fixed width, single column, light

    Very nice and simple design.
    Somebody doesn’t want to overload his server ??

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