Changing things around again
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been moving things around a bit; shoving the main navigation menu to a top bar, a right-hand sidebar relevant to the section, that sort of thing.
Basically, the BTT style is in need of an overhaul. I have to redo a number of aspects of the system, and that will mean the usual broken link fun and redesign of the whole schmeer.
So, what’s on the agenda?
Change the front page
Currently the default “homepage” is a plain list of the most recent public posts. I’d like to change this to a set of lists categorised by section and presented in a nice table.
Fix the Galleries
I upgraded to Plogger v3.0, but the damn thing has issues with session handling that make it unusable from an admin perspective. Currently I’m looking at a TxP plugin that integrates image galleries into the blog. As the ol’ blog seems relatively spam-free, this suits me just fine. May even speed up the database too.
Rearrange the Articles
“Articles” is less bloggy and more like serialised works of fanfic, or random bits of this or that. I’d prefer its index to sort items by topic or theme, and that means more categories and foogling around. Nothing too dramatic.
Change the Style
I’ve been looking at how other blogs present themselves, and I’m trying to extract useful ideas and integrate them into the design. As the page code includes Textile scripting (e.g. enlarging the name of the currently active section in the menu bar) this has been a little challenging to keep in my head.
More importantly, I need to make the site more readable. If I can nail down the presentation, that could mean I can use a larger font for text.
I’ll be banging on this when I have the time anyway. You be warned, d00dz.
Posted in About (Site News,) by R Cruickshank 26/06/08 11:18 AM Tags: about this site, design, textpattern
Any suggestions?
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