The Red Brick Times

As you can see I had some spare time today. Not everything works yet but I'll keep plugging away. So far I like it and hope you do too. Comments have been giving me some trouble (what else is new) but if you happen upon this while I'm working and want to leave one go ahead and give 'er a try. No promises it'll be saved so don't enter the answer to everything (42) and expect it to be there for the rest of us. I'm gonna take a dinner break now.
Posted 5:21 PM by whatley (15) comments

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# posted by  whatley : January 09, 2006 5:22 PM
 
Any way to make it fill the screen? And may be soften the background color, its almost too bright to look at.

# posted by  A. O. : January 09, 2006 6:33 PM
 
Jeez, I take an hour off and already I've got complaints.

No, this design isn't meant to fill the screen and can't be made to at this point. It's that different from the previous one. Maybe it'll grow on you?

Too bright huh? It looks pretty spiffy on my laptop. Let me get a look at it on some other PCs before I start tweaking colors.

Worse comes to worse I can always restore the old one.

Other opinions?

# posted by  whatley : January 09, 2006 6:58 PM
 
Yep, too bright. What's for dinner?

# posted by  Terri S : January 09, 2006 7:29 PM
 
Left over Kung Pao Chicken. I ate by the light of the VERY BRIGHT BLOG on my monitor.

# posted by  whatley : January 09, 2006 7:35 PM
 
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch. Here's some more.

I've always had very light sensitive eyes and doing search and rescue on the water made it worse, so what might appear acceptably visible to most people is excruciatingly bright to me. I found the old design soothing and readable. The sidebar with the links and archive stuff kind of over powers the postings. I think it should be much smaller relative to the main section of the page. If the background ins going stay as bright as it is the font size could stand to be increased by a couple of points.

I don't know if you saw the question I asked on the previous post but when I saw your inquiry I thought it might be good opportunity to futher my education. Any suggestions?

# posted by  A. O. : January 09, 2006 9:09 PM
 
Let me get a look at this on s desktop monitor or two before I junk the whole thing.

I saw your other comment and answered it there.

# posted by  whatley : January 10, 2006 5:44 AM
 
I guess I'm not too bright. The RBT, I mean. No, the screen... anyway, the only thing that I can kvetch about is the size of font. Seems harder to read than previously. Kinda gotta squint and get real close with these bifocally astigmatic eyes of mine. But the intellectual content of the posts is still the same. I mean, just as good as before. Aw, forget it.

# posted by  Andy : January 10, 2006 11:40 AM
 
A little confusing. When going to the comments, can it open a new window with the lead at the top and the comments thread below? I head to experiement to find the "home" button to return to the top blog page. It might be nice to be able to merely close the comment string window without having to switch pages back to the main screen.

# posted by  Andy : January 10, 2006 11:47 AM
 
The font size - yes, we can increase it. You can do that in your browser as well. I use a 1280x800 screen resolution so to me the font size is small. Those using less dense resolutions will see the font larger, at 800 quite large, I think so anyway. Check resolution on your monitor and maybe even temporarily change it to see what I mean. I try to aim at a medium (1024) resolution setting figuring that's what most people have.

Comments spawning a new window (or in Firefox a tab)- yes, we can do that if people want.

Going back to the home page - "The Red Brick Times" on the top banner is now active. It'll change color on a mouseover and is a "home" link when clicked.

# posted by  whatley : January 10, 2006 12:30 PM
 
The color and brightness don't bother me, but then again look at the shirts I wear. Once I read your comment about the active top banner, I stopped using my back button to return to the top. It's cool. Good lyrics and you can dance to it. I'd give it a 62.

# posted by  Michael : January 10, 2006 7:24 PM
 
I hereby christen this RBT template the Hageshirt Design.

I finished up all the archive links this morning (Blogger has a utility to generate and show archive links but because we've been in existence so long and have used multiple page coding formats it doesn't work for us. I gotta do it by hand.) and I think that's it. Everything works now.

I have to go to the library tomorrow anyway so while I'm there I'll try to view this on one of their PCs to check the color scheme. Library PCs are popular and often all taken so no promises. Should I want to experiment (yet again) with background colors maybe I'll save some screen captures as gif's and let you all see them. Maybe some grays. I dunno. I still like it as is.

# posted by  whatley : January 10, 2006 8:03 PM
 
I increased the font size of the posts a bit. Date and byline stayed the same.

# posted by  whatley : January 11, 2006 5:15 AM
 
I've added 25px to the width of the posting area and subtracted 25px width from the right sidebar.

# posted by  whatley : January 11, 2006 5:43 AM
 
Removed the Google www/rbt search function from the right sidebar (bottom). Moved it to a new "Search & Utilities" page linked under "rbt links".

# posted by  whatley : January 11, 2006 11:36 AM
 
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