Here is a new look to Shunya’s Notes, which now resides at “http://blog.shunya.net” — please update your bookmarks. It offers a fluid width and a bigger font (going forward). Moreover, your links, if any, to my previous posts will continue to work (enabled by hours of mucking with DNS name servers, A, mx and cname records, etc.). Enjoy!
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5 responses to “A New Look!”
Looks good! I would have liked a bit bigger font too. But being completely ignorant /incompetent for “hours of mucking around,” I guess I am stuck with my original format (set in stone by Typepad) which I do like on the whole.
So what blog provider are you using now? Is it Typepad? I am completely ignorant, as you can see and cannot tell.
I built this using Typepad’s custom theme design capability. It is still hosted on TP but domain mapped onto my site. I evaluated WordPress (both local and hosted, the former best for those who aren’t afraid of code and may even enjoy fighting their blog rather than write on it 🙂 and briefly looked at Blogspot (a distant third). I think TP is still the best blog service out there, every $ worth the price.
I went to Typepad’s custom theme site. Couldn’t make out a thing !!! And for a complete ignoramus like me, domain mapping and such esoterica is … well esoterica.
Perhaps I can catch hold of a neighborhood youngster who can spend a few hours to help.
I am on the whole satisfied with my tried, tested and as I said, “set in stone” website. I would have just preferred a larger font. I use a desktop with a rather large screen and have no difficulty. But whenever I read it on a laptop, it appears too compressed. I don’t plan to do too many technical calisthenics on A.B. Do you think I should even bother with something that I may not be able to handle? How do you assess the comfort level of reading A.B. in its current format?
You only need a custom theme (under Design -> Change Theme). This is not as hard as you are making it sound! I liked my previous design (and your current one) more than most others, except the tiny font and the blog’s fixed/narrow width (looks worse on higher res screens, all that wasted space!). I also wanted it to reference only shunya.net instead of typepad.com, hence the domain mapping. You don’t need this step.
Hey, I changed it! It was indeed not hard at all. For some reason, the edit buttons were not opening for the last one month. I called my husband and he came up and opened them right away! It was embarrassing (happens all the time)!
I have changed it to a simple design. Let’s see how readers react. I would have liked the banner to look a bit more jazzy like yours. But as far as I can tell, I can either have “image” or “text” and not a combination of the two. Take a look when you have a moment.