Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The new layout

I had used the old layout for close to a full decade!
So I suddenly decided to get another one. You like it?

12 comments:

Unknown said...

What are the other 2/3 of the page reserved for?

Tommy said...

I'm not sure about it. It certainly doesn't ring "Danish dropout bohemian".

Anonymous said...

a bit like a department store in a space too large for their inventory

emptyspaces said...

Same color as a lot of my house!

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Tommy, No, I guess it doesn't. It is difficult to find a good balance between dignity, freshness, invention, and readability.

Tommy said...

Don't forget that "manly bohemian".. :-)

Rink said...

" It is difficult to find a good balance between dignity, freshness, invention, and readability."

Okay, how about putting "readability" number one. We can't see your dignity, freshness, invention without being able to read it!

Tommy said...

OK, I'll try and be serious (that is if you think I wasn't).
To me, it's very pastel and the text doesn't stand out very well against the background. If it were bold or simply black it might be better.
In my humble opinion.

Happy New Year, EO...

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

You really think so?
OK, I can see it with the sub-title. But the main text is 97% black, on a very light background (95% white). There are sites which are doing well with much less contrast.

Bru said...

The left side margin is enormous. Much too big. I guess the body is supposed to be centered, but that doesn't work for me. Once you move the body to the left side instead of the center, I suspect there will be other changes necessary as well.

Bruce W. said...

There may be a problem with how the colors are rendered on different monitors. On my monitor, I have a problem similar to Tommy's. The color difference between the main text of the blog posts and the background is slight enough that it makes it hard to read (for me at least). The text and background appear as slightly different shades of blue. I have to slow down my reading to see the differences. It ends up being an annoyance---a minor one, but still annoying.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Wow, that is astonishing. Really, I chose the darkest blue for the text I could find, and the lightest blue for the background I could make.

Can you take a photo or screenshot of it?