Do some of you really think I designed this site? I don’t have that kind of patience. Check out the blogroll. See the different size fonts? Although I thought I fixed that, it’s still acting up. Last night I fiddled with it and gave up. This morning I fiddled with it and gave up. That’s what you have to deal with when you’re trying to get a new blog just right. Next step: Lisa Sabin to the rescue!
I want to introduce you to my blog designer and host, Lisa Sabin of Elegant Webscapes. She also has her own blog, Just A Girl.
I contacted her last month and asked about her services. When I was ready to make my move, I knew she was the one I wanted to help with the daunting task of exporting all my posts from Blogger to WordPress. She came up with the idea for the header, and I chose the warm earth tones and layout. It’s still a work in progress.
Lisa is affordable, efficient, talented and very patient. When you’re ready for a new look or a big move, you should definitely consider Elegant Webscapes. As you can see, she does great work.
About my blogroll, I will finish adding everyone who’s on the old blogroll at Blog*Spot, plus a few others who’ve linked to me. I haven’t forgotten you.
A few commenters offered suggestions about importing my comments. I will contact each of you via e-mail. Thanks.
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Looks good La Shawn!!
I myself am still hoping to find some designer that wants to ‘take pity on me’ with my site since I am the perverbial ’starving student’…..oh well, I know I’ll fix my site up sometime.
Good job, Lisa
The new site looks great!
Looks good La Shawn. Maybe one day soon I’ll make the big move also.
Thanks for the props, La Shawn! If you need any help at all with tweaking the layout just a bit, here and there – - drop me a mail. Now that the bulk of the stuff is done – - tweaking it a bit would go smoothly (err..and at no cost as I do provide ongoing support for my hosted clients)
Have a GREAT weekend!
Hey, I do design too! I’m not a professional though, but my latest site is Rantingprofs, which is a professor of mine that you should check out if you haven’t already. She tears the media to shreds. She’s awesome.
I like the fonts. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that my Blog title link is one of the larger ones.
Your link to me is the old one that doesn’t work.
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Looks pretty nice. I think I may have to become a regular reader.
La Shawn – your fonts are just fine – easy to read on a screen.
Simple design is just fine (I do some mydelf).
Curly fonts etcc are just hard to read. So are colored backgrounds.
You need to add trackback links to your entries so that people who ping you can be shown from your main page. I’m also glad to see that you’ve gone to the trouble of getting your blog to be XHTML compliant. Standards compliance is very important because it makes writing and maintaining usable pages and tools easier.
For anyone struggling to get a MT blog XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant, here is a helpful suggestion as to how to make your trackback and comment popup links pass the W3C validator.
Since Wordpress is not formatting HTML correctly, here’s the URL
http://www.blindmindseye.com/archives/000320.php
I hate to be critical, but I find the orange text on white background a bit difficult to read, and the black text on orange background even more diffiult.
Kyle- I was about to change that. Thanks. Stick around!
Hey La Shawn,
I tried to reply to your email but it kept getting sent back so I thought I’d just post the response here.
***Does have anything to do with link classes?***
Yeah, if your using it’s just a matter of changing your stylesheet. It’s
reallly easy, you just:
1. Click on Templates
2. Click on Stylesheet
3. Scroll down until you see something like this:
.side {
font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;
color:#333;
font-size:x-small;
font-weight:normal;
background:#fff;
line-height:140%;
padding:2px;
}
4. Change “font-size” (for example: font-size:x-small; )
5. Click save
6. Click “Rebuild” at the top of the page.
7. Select “Rebuild indexes only”
And that’s it. It should work after that. I use word values for font sizes
(i.e, medium, x-small) and percentages for line-heights (i.e., 140%) rather
than pixels so that it will load according to the users own settings. If they
have smaller monitors and you have font size set by pixel size (e.g., 12pt) it
can be too much for the screen.
If you have any problems, cut and paste your stylesheet into an email and send
it to me. I’ll take a look at it and see if there is anything you might want to
adjust.
-joe
That’s strange, Joe, because I got your e-mail. Thanks.
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