{"id":12766,"date":"2006-03-17T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/drikoland-redesign\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T21:16:00","slug":"drikoland-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/drikoland-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"DrikoLand Redesign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably (hopefully) noticed, I&rsquo;ve redesigned the layout for DrikoLand.  One impetus for change is the recent 1,000,000th hit on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/80smusic.html\" target=\"_blank\">&lsquo;80s Site<\/a> (woo hoo!), which is spurring me on to revamp a lot of that site (still working on that; more news soon, I hope).  However, the blog has also become a little stagnant, I think, so I&rsquo;m finally implementing some of the ideas I&rsquo;ve been jotting down for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve tried to keep the main elements of the site the same, like the overall color scheme and the logo.  I may yet change some more, but this is it for now.  Here&rsquo;s a summmary of most of the changes, and some rationales for them if you&rsquo;re interested.  If not, skip on down to the end&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most obvious change is a move (back) to two columns from three, with a fixed width.  I decided on a fixed width of 800 pixels so that the site should look pretty much the same to anyone with a screen width of 800 pixels or more, which is about 95% of you, according to my site stats.  This allows me to better visualize the addition of large images in posts, as I now know exactly how things will look to everyone.  Although I will point out that M$ Internet Explorer still doesn&rsquo;t render some things like it should, which caused me to tear my hear out over several spacing issues that worked perfectly in Firefox.<\/li>\n<li>With the switch to two columns, I deleted and reordered several of the elements in the previous two sidebars.<\/li>\n<li>Two search boxes in the right sidebar are now a single search box that just searches the DrikoLand blog, versus the WWW or the entire driko.org domain.  I never used the Technorati search box, and the new Google Blog Search is at least as good.  I may want to add back a means to search the entire site, though.<\/li>\n<li>I got rid of the &ldquo;Useful Links&rdquo; section that was in the left sidebar altogether.  Although nostalgic in that those pages still retained design elements from the mid- to late-&#8217;90s, they were rife with broken links and I don&rsquo;t think anyone really visited them.  I plan on slowly adding working links from those pages and from my extensive personal bookmarks into del.icio.us, so the categories in the right sidebar will probably grow as I add those in.  That will allow you (and me) to access all of my bookmarks (and post links) from any location, which will be kind of nice, I think.<\/li>\n<li>I moved the navigation bar up top to below the logo, as I think it helps the logo stand out more.  I debated getting rid of the navigation bar altogether, but since I find myself using it, I decided to keep it around.<\/li>\n<li>I changed some formatting, like making blockquotes surrounded by a shaded box so they stand out better.  There are some minor font changes that shouldn&rsquo;t be all that evident except that I cleaned up the underlying CSS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next step will be to move away from a table-based layout to one that utilizes CSS, which will make future changes much easier and will also help me to standardize formatting across the entire site.  One step at a time, though&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Please let me know what you think!  If you actually used something that I got rid of, let me know and I&rsquo;ll see if it can be reincorporated.  If you have any other suggestions for additions or changes, I&rsquo;d appreciate them as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drikoland\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drikoland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/www\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">www<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/html\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/blogs\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blogs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114252441762698733?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably (hopefully) noticed, I&rsquo;ve redesigned the layout for DrikoLand. One impetus for change is the recent 1,000,000th hit on my &lsquo;80s Site (woo hoo!), which is spurring me on to revamp a lot of that site (still working on that; more news soon, I hope). However, the blog has also become a little &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/17\/drikoland-redesign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DrikoLand Redesign&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}