Well, I finally got around to moving Martha’s blog over to the new server, and I put together a new theme for her while I was at it. She actually picked one to use initially, but it was really image based and the fixed width was really annoying, so she just had me make up a new one using the same color scheme.
If you go to her blog and you still see the old theme (with comments disabled), your DNS servers probably just haven’t refreshed yet. I’m also experimenting with a few other things with her new site, so if you run into any technical issues, please let me know by posting a comment here on this post.
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It’s funny how Martha picks a theme out and instead of you letting her use it you convince her that making a similar one would be better. Better for who? you, her or us?
However I did think the same things when I changed Sara’s blog to her current theme but my reasoning was she doesn’t get a lot of traffic, the people that go to her page would like it more then the the two snobs that I know who wouldn’t like it being so “image-driven” (Jared + Nathan) and most importantly I knew she would like it a lot; I think that counts the most, her liking it.
Now if Martha likes her current theme that’s awesome I’m just talking about the notion of the reissue or revision in order to fit some “standard”.
So Jared get over your crazyness about fixed width, it’s only a problem for your monster laptop that’s three feet wide and growls. Real people use windows (and tabs).
And what’s so bad about image driven sites? It’s rare to see someone on dial-up anymore, css can’t do everything and blocky sites are so blah especially if you want color.
I’m for surely not lifting my site up to any level beyond improvable but I have 4 images on my page that drive the design, I still use a lot of CSS and I just don’t think it should be an issue. I also use fixed width because I’ve been too lazy to change it but in my eyes it doesn’t matter. My point is fixed width and images shouldn’t hinder any design, they should be the least of your worries.
Heh. Just so you know, I set it up initially with the one she picked, and SHE said it was too skinny (in a 1024 window, not my full screen); I didn’t influence her at all.
Then I offered to throw together one with the same general color scheme, but that wasn’t designed completely around images, which I do think it almost always a bad design idea, but wasn’t a part of this particular decision process.
I’m not going to try to talk you out of it, but there are plenty of good reasons for not doing a fixed width, image based theme (or at least providing an alternative). Just ask any of the ever increasing number of people who are getting internet access on their phones/PDAs and trying to surf to poorly designed sites that are unreadable on screens smaller than 800×600 (and sometimes not even that). This isn’t the only issue, but even if it were it’s a big enough one for me.
um, i actually love sara’s new blog and don’t mind image driven sites. i actually began working on a new design for my blog after seeing sara’s new design. i’d like people to consistantly set background colors that contrast with the text so i can read it on my palm (often they’ll do a dark background image, light text, and not set a background color), but aside from that, i’m fine. the only reason my blog designs have lacked images is that i don’t want to “repurpose” an image i didn’t create and hadn’t been inspired to create something of my own.
the fixed width thing is just annoying and i do use windows and tabs.
hey, my account on martha’s blog is gone, as is a registration link!
Yeah, sorry about that. I have to change the whole registration process, because it’s running on WordPress MU now.
All in good time….
I can say that MU sucks. With only this little experience I’ve already had issues.
I still have yet to see them (unless you’re talking about not registering). Next time you see one let me know (for anyone else too).
The non-registration thing isn’t actually an error, just something I haven’t configured yet.
me confused. isn’t registration built in?
OK, OK, it’s enabled now - all you whiners! (Just kidding)
I’m not sure why normal user registration is disabled by default in WPMU, but I went ahead and re-enabled it (and had to edit some of the code to make it work). Hopefully there are no unintended consequences.
I’ll post more of a full review of WPMU later on, but for now Martha has informed me that I’ve used up my allotment of computer time.
I get a blank screen after I update my profile on Martha’s blog.
yeah, I didn’t get that far into looking into it, but it should still work fine.
You guys are such nerds! But, I have to say, I like Martha’s new look.