August 23, 2009
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Titanium Tatas
Wowee! Take a look at those! (image.gif)
But in all seriousness, I’ve been playing with the layout of nikbv. I thought it might be nice to have three columns, decreasing in size from left to right. The farthest left one would be the blog. The middle one would have the pulse and other internal links, and the farthest right one would be my profile information, followed by external links like my facebook and twitter accounts, as well as recommended xanga blogs.
The following is a link to the page as it currently exists: link
My hope is that, with more content visible than simply the main blog, visitors who stop by but are not interested in reading an entire blog entry for whatever reason don’t have to root around for an hour to find something else of interest. The pulse, and various links are right there.
These are some screen shots (click to enlarge, if you’re really that interested)
On the other hand, if you do come for the blog alone, I wanted to make it simple and easy for you to click on the blog and have that fill the entire screen for ease of reading (which would appear basically as the blog is now). While the weblog feature (and blog link at the top) doesn’t seem to work at the moment (not sure why) when you see the page you can click on an entry (by reading it all on the main page and then clicking on comments, or quickly and easily clicking on the ‘View Comments’ link at the top next to the title, and all the pulse and other stuff will disappear, and the weblog (or pulse or archive or whatever you clicked on) will then be able to take up the entire width of the page.
My hope is that this will increase the fun and exciting content available to all on nikbv. However, I’m aware that many people don’t like what is essentially a magazine or newspaper style of presentation (even if roughly done), so I’m not going to go forward with any changes that the majority of my readers won’t like.
Because themes seem too inflexible to allow three columns on the main page and only two on any speciality page like /weblogs and /pulse (though I’m waiting on xanga to get back to me on that) I’ve constructed the current page through the old skins page, which allows some more flexibility. However, there’s still a lot of work to do to get things actually working, if I am going to continue to proceed along this path.
Thus, I have a poll.
Please vote now, and let your opinion be heard!P.S. There never were any titanium tatas. Sorry.
Comments (7)
my opinion was heard.
I love the new layout–like this or three-column. Plus, it doesn’t make my computer lag. For some reason, your last layout made my computer lag.
i like the 3 columns. looks professional.
The new layout is GREAT! The only thing is, I have a slight compulsion. It sort of gets on my nerves when the columns aren’t of equal length. Right now, your blog column is longer than the other two (but not a lot longer. I’m only talking for future reference when you may have much longer posts.), it looks a little bit weird when that happens and the blog column is to the left instead of the middle. Otherwise, the change is really great.
Martha
The new looks like a good preview…like it now as well..however you decide it..I think most people will come here to enjoy your blogs ^_^ Just a guess but I’d bet so..you are a smart man Mr NikBv. I’m not even on here much, and don’t read everything you’ve put on, but I enjoy what I read on here.
Hope you had a nice weekend!:)
I like it. I voted.
I think there was a “Gardener”…
I like the three-column layout. It looks very professional.