Trying to figure out what to do with the lines separating the top from the bottom.
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Trying to figure out what to do with the lines separating the top from the bottom.
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debit
Lines?
beltane
Titles also shouldn’t be in light blue, it makes it so everything seems to blend in together.
RoonieRoo
I must be missing the lines too. But this is fun to watch
Blackfrancis
Good time to do this, everyone should be watching the playoff game today. Bears vs Seahawks doesn’t count, everyone knows they are just going down to the Packers.
sherifffruitfly
ginormous post headlines are ginormous.
AnnaN
I do believe a judicious use of Moar Tunch will solve your problems.
Good luck!
Strandedvandal
I have no idea where you find the patience to do this stuff. Thanks for doing it however.
arguingwithsignposts
dammit, stop the comments from collapsing totally when you resize windows!
And glad to see it’s finally going live.
Stillwater
You mean those horizontal lines made up of letters and word-thingies?
Depends on who wrote em.
eastriver62
The line between the top and bottom is called a “belt.” If you have a problem with it, stop ordering dessert.
Kristine
another test
Omnes Omnibus
What the deuce?
Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)
I am already used to the new format.
BGinCHI
I haven’t seen this many lines since the 80s.
Thanks. Thanks. I’m here all week.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Thought you’d have a Bucky avatar or something Packer or cheese-related.
Or a New Glarus label?
Joseph Nobles
You know who else didn’t know what to do with the lines separating the top from the bottom?
beltane
This has nothing to do with site maintenance, but after reading the Italian news of the past few days I am so wanting a bunga-bunga room in my house. Why are our own right-wingers too unimaginative for such exuberant displays of excess and debauch?
arguingwithsignposts
@Joseph Nobles: Godwin so early. An Internetz for you, good sir.
jcricket
Oooh, shiny. I take it you redesigned the support to honor the Tunisian Twitter revolution?
Kidding
arguingwithsignposts
Hey, how do we get these cool avatars?
Joey Maloney
Would sure like to have the previous/next links back at the top, as well as the bottom.
JPL
Why is the script larger on Google Chrome than it is on Firefox? I’m not complaining, because the blog master said not to, I’m just curious.
BGinCHI
@beltane: Love the Thomas More avatar. Did you read Wolf Hall? He doesn’t come off very well in Mantel’s telling, but it’s prob no more than he deserves.
beltane
@jcricket: Is that what the baby blue motiff is for?
Violet
If you go to the previous thread, there isn’t an indication at the top of it that this thread (or the thread before it) exists. There used to be a link to the next thread title. I hope that comes back.
Alex S.
Both sides do it.
BGinCHI
@arguingwithsignposts: Go over to previous thread. Lots of advice and paranoia there.
Tim
I didn’t realize we’d be discussing gay sexuality today. Cool.
beltane
@BGinCHI: Now you will hate me as I switched to Erasmus of Rotterdam, a far more sympathetic figure than that proto-wingnut More.
licensed to kill time
OMG everything looks incredibly weird I haz a scared and WTF avatars?!?!
RoonieRoo
Ah, I see the lines now….I guess. Ha. So why do some have avatars and others don’t.
jnfr
Checking…
Ah cool. This is my WordPress avatar. If you haven’t registered with them, I don’t know how else you get one.
Anya
I am not impressed with the facebook ‘like’ thingy that’s added to the posts. I thought this blog was too cool for that kind of desperate attention seeking.
Sapristi
this is a gimongous improvement.
Kiril
John, would you please do something about those lines? There are lines on the blog. Please hurry. I do not like the lines.
Linda Featheringill
@RoonieRoo:
Avatars: On the previous thread there are links to the avatar place.
lamh32
how do we do avatars guys?
Edit: Oh wait, I see Linda F’s already responded to someone else, ne’r’mind.
stuckinred
Go Bears!!!
justinslot
Just checking my Gravatar.
EDIT: Obviously not working. :(
BGinCHI
@beltane: That’s not More? That’s who I’m seeing, unless I’m mistaken.
I prefer Erasmus, though, so have at it. I was going to put up Shax, but I thought that would look too precious.
BGinCHI
@stuckinred: Man, your Falcons got a beat down. Sorry for your loss.
Assuming you’ll have an Athens-centric avatar.
joeyess
joeyess
How do I get an avatar?
jcricket
@beltane: John is nothing if not an accidental slacktivist.
Really, he just wants to get Sully to notice him.
stuckinred
Go Bear, did my avatar show up?
jcricket
Go Seahawks!
Go Pats!
lamh32
Did McCain have a brain fart? How soon before he’s back to calling Obama “that one”? I suspect it won’t last long.
McCain Calls Obama a ‘Patriot,’ Rejects Critics Who Say He’s ‘Unworthy’ to Lead
eemom
so does the little “like” thingy mean the blog is interconnected with FB now?
cuz then I’ll want to friend everybody. Well, almost everybody. Well, some people. Maybe 6.
beltane
@stuckinred: Dude, there is no avatar.
justinslot
Wait, now it works! Yes! That’s Rick Veitch drawing Harvey Pekar as Darkseid.
arguingwithsignposts
can i just say that the gravatar system is a huge PITA? is it too soon to whinge? Also, permalinks for comments not quite working.
eemom
@joeyess:
look on the last thread. Something called gravatar.com. It is easy peasy lemon squeezy.
JGabriel
Anya:
Seconded.
.
stuckinred
Hell yes!
JGabriel
@arguingwithsignposts:
Dude, that’s like asking if it’s too early to drink. Answer: Never.
.
stuckinred
John
Don’t pay any attention to these whiners. No one likes change!
morzer
@joeyess:
Go thou unto the site which is named http://www.gravatar.com, create an account using the email thou signest in with here, and then upload a picture to thy account. After so doing, clear thou thy cache and may thy days be long in the Land of Tunch.
BruceFromOhio
Change is good, I throw it all in a jar in the kitchen, and then give it away to charity when the jar gets full.
Oooh, gravatar and facebook integration. 21st century balloon juice!
ETA: Swankified! And Google Chrome likes it, too!
debit
I’m not seeing the “like” thing. I’m guessing it’s because it’s a Facebook thing and I have all things Facebook blocked with noscript and adblock.
licensed to kill time
I’m checking to see if this avatar thingy worked. And everything STILL looks weird as hell.
eta: apparently, not. hmm
JGabriel
@joeyess:
First, set out a bait trap with unobtanium …
.
eemom
@stuckinred:
oooh, he’s CUTE. The little red doggie.
IndyLib
Let’s see if my avatar from TaMara’s place follow me over. I had to give in and get one, WP had assigned me a naked turkey with band aids.
PeakVT
What happened to the timestamp?
stuckinred
whoa, what a set of pipes
Josie
This is hilarious. I could swear that I am back in my junior high classroom, trying to get the kids to rearrange the chairs for group projects. Fun times.
JGabriel
@BruceFromOhio:
No, it’s not.
Unless Republicans are in charge. Then change is good. But only then.
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cmorenc
The new look badly clutters the individual posts too close together, which the odd-even alteration of contrasting gray vs white backgrounds aggravates rather than solves.
At least one blank line top and bottom for each post would greatly help relieve this problem, and make the gray v white alteration scheme be a positive enhancement to the site rather than a severe detriment.
EDIT: You changed it while I was composing this post to get rid of the alternating gray v white scheme + restored enough “white space” to fix the clutter problem. Excellent!
vheidi
@BGinCHI: wasn’t that a great book?
eta no avatar yet
eemom
@stuckinred:
but John said he BANNED change!
cmorenc
OK, MUCH better now. The clutter is gone (well, so is the alternating background, but that’s an aspect that of itself, I could’ve lived with either with or without just fine)
stuckinred
Um, NFL Playoff Open Thread
control A
control C
control v
MonkeyBoy
Not complaining. Just demonstrating that you still need the double underscore hack to blockquote multiple paragraphs.
With blank line between gives:
With double underscore line instead of blank gives
Ta Da!
BruceFromOhio
@eemom: It is easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Stolen, using profusely to the annoyance of all I address this lovely day of change that Republicans are not in charge of.
ETA: @MonkeyBoy: I think I started a FYWP tricksies document for all of the various machinations, but cannot locate. Is there a cheat sheet somewhere in teh tubez that describes all of the different spells one may cast?
Your Friendly Neighborhood Lurker
I hate this redesign. It’s ugly and too cluttered.
roshan
Why in the world do we need a facebook button beneath every post?
Linda Featheringill
@arguingwithsignposts:
Cute avatar!
South of I-10
Avatar working? Test?
Obviously not – try again . . .
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: How does one acquire an avatar?
WaterGirl
@debit: Thanks for clearing that up for me. I had no idea what people were talking about. (I use adblock)
RoonieRoo
Testing :)
sherifffruitfly
Look ma! I discovered how to make a stylesheet work!
Nice job on getting the vert spacing and that ludicrous font size under control.
Michael D.
Liking this so far. Not Facebook liking it though. Not that our opinions matter, as we’ve been told.
joeyess
Ha! Got my new avatar! Be jealous. Very jealous.
joeyess
Oh, shit.
BGinCHI
@vheidi: Yes, and the sequel is supposed to come out at some point.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Not very WI-centric.
sigh
joeyess
@JGabriel: ha ha ha ………. well done.
joeyess
@morzer: The Land of Tunch? Is that anywhere near Mordor?
shoutingattherain
Test Avatar test tunch
PurpleGirl
testing, testing, testing
Evolved Deep Southerner
Icon test here.
Evolved Deep Southerner
It worked! Well I’ll be damned! I don’t give a shit if we did suck this year, GO DAWGS! FIRE MARK RICHT! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!
BGinCHI
@Evolved Deep Southerner: Didn’t know you were a UGA guy too. Stuckinred, of course, and I did an MA there.
icuryy
test