New Header Art
Thanks loads to my friend Iain for putting it together. He rocks in ways many have yet to discover, but it’s good to know his talents, when not being used for a very worthy cause, are at least here.
That is my handwriting and no, I didn’t make it all cartoony and jagged for the artistic value - that is actually how I write. The backdrop is a picture I took and the icons were things I just found lying around which you could loosely call categories, even though I don’t actually classify anything I write into categories.
It’s bugging me that the picture needs to be a few pixels higher, but that’s because I’m out of my depth, as I keep telling you. If anyone knows about Wordpress and CCS, HTML or header templates, please get in touch because I need some help.
It looks good, though - like a proper site.
June 27th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
It’s a nice header pic.
June 27th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
That feed thingy appears to be working now. Although I need to catch up. Is ‘All in love is fair’ Stevie Wonder???
(feedburner is quite good for managing your outgoing feed BTW. I am a recent convert. It has lots of gadgety things)
June 27th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Thanks Jonny. I sorted the header artwork out as well. Actually, my mate Iain did it.
Bingo for Stevie Wonder.
Yeah, the feed thing has been tricky, but thanks for letting me know it works. I’ve got about 5 subscriptions open to this site and everytime I publish I check them all now, so cheers. And I did put feedburner in.
If you catch up on anything, have a look at Nine Rooms - that’s been The Project, although I it’s only a matter of time before I realise I have to saw the legs off it and glue them back on.
(had to say it)
June 27th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
I don’t get it.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Definately looking good
June 27th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Your nfancy-schmancy header pic doesn’t link back to the main page on comment pages, you know
June 27th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
I’ll have to work that one out. Cheers Ed.
June 27th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
IT looks really nice, though, CLiff. Didn’t mean to come off angry.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Not at all, Ed - that’s not how I took it. Cheers, honestly.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Yes, it looks great, Cliff. I love seeing photos of blue seas and skies.
I wonder what a handwriting expert would say about some of your
backward sloping writing. I still think it all looks great, though.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
OK - the header art links back now.
June 28th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Looks great, but how about this - what if each of those icons glowed white when you hovered over it, and clicking then took you to a page containing recent posts from a relevant category?
I’d offer to do this for you, but my time is being taken up by the newborn. Maybe some other reader with the relevant expertise will pick up the baton?
June 28th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Yay!
I’m a happy commenter now.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Thanks Pete. Good idea, but that would involve me classifying all postings, as as most fall into two or more of those ones shown, I\’m not so sure. Also, I don\’t read categories ever on blogs. Having said that, it does bug me how they look like they should be clickable.
Congratulations again with the baby. And the offer to help. I will think more about categories and if I do them, I will come calling.
And cheers Ed - glad to help.
July 1st, 2006 at 6:41 am
Love it! Very ‘you’! And the handwriting is neat! (in both senses of the word!) very ‘free and flowing’ are you left-handed?
July 1st, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Hi Sooz, thanks a lot.
I’m right handed and do my a’s like typewriter ones because it makes sense. Why should they be different when we read and type so much these days. Why deviate? Apart from my e’s have lines through them like little t’s.
No logic whatsoever in it. I don’t know what a graphologist would make of it.