Another redesign
Well I finally came up with a layout involving a sidebar that I actually quite like. It’s not finished yet as I’ve still got to sort out some of the little things, like the individual blog post pages and comments etc. but it’s good enough to start moving everything into it.
I’m really pleased I’ve actually got this far with it because I always seem to start making new designs then get bored of them half way through. At the moment my working folder (the one with my design in it) contains seven possible designs, six of which I started off loving and only one that I still like.
For some reason I’ve developed a craving for sidebars and although I really like my old layout there just wasn’t any good way to plonk a sidebar into it.
There are a few issues with this design at the moment, the main one being that if the browser is resized to below a certain size (i think about 950px) the content is forced to below the sidebar. I do have a fix for this which involves firing some javascript to check the browser size and change the CSS if necessary every time the browser’s resized but for some reason it doesn’t play nicely with my sIFR (which is probably the most frustrating thing to use. ever.).
My website really needs a retune and I need to strip a lot of the useless javascript bloat that is really only used in one place but is loaded into every page… anyway, WOO new design!