3 Column Blog Design and Recent Comments
Edit- The blog is temporarily back to its old design while I work out the bugs.
As you probably noticed, I’ve changed my blog design to three columns with the help of this template from Thur’s Templates. Needless to say, it took a lot of modifications.
Another new feature is the recent comments section on the left side. For a long time, I’ve been looking for a way to do this with Haloscan comments, after seeing it on some of the other blogs. But, I discovered that if you take the RSS feed for haloscan:
“http://www.haloscan.com/members/rss.php?user=yourusernamehere” (replace “yourusernamehere”),
plug that into a RSS feed viewer (I used RSS to Javascript), and plug the code into your blog, you get a section like the one I have. (You could probably do the same thing with blog posts, only they are xml.) If you do use the directions here to make your own “Recent Comments”, please make a link back to this post.
So, hopefully, the new design will be easier to use and more interactive. I’ve already noticed that the middle section loads last, which could be a problem. Please tell me what you think and make sure to tell me if anything goes wrong.
1Conservative Schooler
wrote on 2 January 2006 at 23:45
If you are using Internet Explorer, the page will come up looking like a jumbled mess. What you need to do is go to view, text size, and click medium and everything shows up the way it should. That will make it so that you can view the page using Internet Explorer.
Katelyn, IM me and we can see if we can fix it so that people using IE (like me) can read it without going through all those steps.
But the design looks really good once you can see it the way it is supposed to show up. Good job.
2Katelyn Sills
wrote on 2 January 2006 at 23:55
I have to work on school work that is due tommorow, but I’ll try to fix it as soon as possible. BTW, what text size did you have it set to?
3Conservative Schooler
wrote on 3 January 2006 at 0:03
It was on largest, but I think that’s the default setting.
4Katelyn
wrote on 3 January 2006 at 0:05
I would think that medium would be the default.
5FreeAgencyRules
wrote on 3 January 2006 at 0:18
It looks good, but I don’t like how long the page takes to load.
FAR.
6Conservative Schooler
wrote on 3 January 2006 at 0:35
You would think so, but it’s not. I never touched it until today.
Actually, the large setting is just about right for most pages. But for whatever reason after the redesign, the font on your site is larger than most other websites, or at least it appears that way.
I think I can tell what some of the problems are right now, but I don’t nessesarily want to waste time and space detailing them right here. Just contact me when you get a chance (doesn’t have to be today) and we can play with it and try to fix the problem.
7Conservative Schooler
wrote on 3 January 2006 at 2:45
Well, I don’t seem to be having any problems on my laptop, so perhaps it was just a problem with my PC.
8Sam Purtill
wrote on 3 January 2006 at 16:52
I’m a web developer and I have to say that your previous blog design was much better. It loaded faster and wasn’t a mess up top (it was in Firefox). If you have any coding questions IM me, my sn is sdpurtill. Keep it up Katelyn!
9LNaranjoiv
wrote on 4 January 2006 at 16:20
Insert old army addage here:
If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.
Sometimes, the bells and whistles aren’t worth the effort.
10Katelyn
wrote on 5 January 2006 at 17:38
LNaranjoiv, the only problem with that is that it looks “broke” to me, but maybe I’m just being a perfectionist.
11Conservative Schooler
wrote on 5 January 2006 at 19:00
It doesn’t look broke to me either. I think that the templete you had up Monday was nice, but this one is good too.
If you want to see a real “broke” website, then go look at mine
12FreeAgencyRules
wrote on 6 January 2006 at 1:53
CS,
When I had the problem that you have, I found it to be a “quote” that spanned wider than the settings would allow.
May not be connected at all, but who knows.
FAR.