Justinsomnia refreshed

So what’s different?

  • header image and “design”
  • max-width, centered layout (only applies to FF, etc, width is fixed in IE6) in other words, the page doesn’t get wider than the visible width on a 1024×768 resolution monitor, but it does shrink down for lower resolutions
  • comments have their own column on post pages
  • monthly archive pages list posts chronologically (e.g. October 2005)
  • update: neatlinks archives (still “powered” by Blogger) are now integrated into Wordpress monthly archives!
  • update: added permalink links back to the neatlinks having figured out a while ago why Blogger was adding empty divs to my posts. I also added a rewrite rule that redirects the Blogger archive permalinks to the new integrated monthly archive URLs.
  • numerous CSS fixes, improvements, revisions

Say goodbye to the design christened by Jackie as “Justin’s pumpkin patch.”

Blog screenshot before redesign during October 2005

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:36am
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Jason
10/19/05 6:34am

VERY nice, Justin. Looks great, and incredibly functional. I particularly dig the new header (thin and useful).

Great job.

Anton
10/19/05 6:41am

Nice improvements. Always a pleasure to visit your site, Justin.

jackson
10/19/05 7:15am

I like it. My only suggestion would be to make the name box bigger in your comment form.

mush
10/19/05 7:26am

Looks great! New header is hawt.

justin
10/19/05 9:31am

thanks all. jackson, good point. done.

justin
10/19/05 1:50pm

Oops, minor bug, the index page was only displaying 2 posts. Previously I had it showing 10, and it was growing kind of long. Let’s try 5.

WillR
10/19/05 2:08pm

I must admit I’d shifted purely to RSS to kind of get “out of the patch”. The new design is well worth stealing from. Way to go Justin.

jackie
10/19/05 3:26pm

yay, no more pumpkins. but the color remains. Can we expect any adjustments on the beige/orange front?

justin
10/19/05 5:05pm

WillR, sorry the patch scared you off. So good to see you blogging, btw, good luck in the elections.

Jackie, but beige (#dda) and orange (#c60) are like my sekret sauce. If they were some other colors it wouldn’t be Justinsomnia.

Brian
10/19/05 7:25pm

I agree with Jackie the color needs a change too.

WillR
10/19/05 8:15pm

Thanks Justin. Hey, I still read, just through a “scanner darkly” (Sage+my secret mods AND RSS).

jackie
10/20/05 7:15am

problem–I can’t scroll down to see the most recent comments. the scrolling just stops at the end of the post itself.

justin
10/20/05 9:42am

Jackie, you have inadvertantly outed yourself as an IE user. I presume at work…?

In any event big thanks for catching that. What you described is a known bug in Internet Explorer described here: IE/Win Unscrollable Content Bug.

I hate hate hate CSS hacks to please IE, but in fact I employed several semi-hacks to force FF to obey max-width while IE obeyed width on my pages. Plus this fix was simple.

Thanks again.

corey
10/20/05 10:47am

is the ‘j’ capital now?

justin
10/20/05 2:36pm

yep, cap-J looked better in the header.

jackie
10/20/05 3:18pm

It works now. And yes, I am at work, on not just IE, but shitty years-old IE. I get a new computer next week. Maybe my new computer and monitor will be the same color!

justin
10/20/05 3:55pm

You can’t download Firefox? Have they locked down the computers? Have we already had this conversation?

Ruby
10/21/05 9:31am

Looks great! I love the comments on the side, they are so much more accessible and integrated into the post.

justin
10/22/05 7:14pm

If you guys think the colors are bad now, check out my site design circa 2003.