Here Goes Nothing…
After goofing off for the last few weeks with a construction fence across the header here at Gate 21, the fences are finally down. What should have been a 2-3 day minor renovation has turned into a multi-week exercise in my dragging my feet which has finally come to lackluster fruition.
Thus — although I am still working on updating a few things — Gate 21 is now back open for business without fear of having a virtual crane drop anything on your head.
The primary changes may not immediately be apparent, unless you look closely. The high points are a wider post area (HT to MoonDog for that idea), wider sidebars, re-schemed colors, improved load times (hopefully), a nametag for Gus, and a completely re-organized blogroll which now lives in both sidebars.
There are still a few more things to be adjusted, but — for the most part — the remodel of the actual site is done and things should be returning to my normal level of questionable quality and poor taste.
Hopefully, Gus will begin the 10-day countdown to kickoff with daily changes to the header here leading up to gameday. I assure you that each day will be suitable for framing (if you consider a faded bamboo calendar for 1968 hawking Esso gasoline to be fine art, that is).
And to think you all thought I was actually going to change something meaningful…
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It looks good – as expected from a graphics whiz.
Seriously, I like it. Overall, the edges have been softened a lot, which separates G21 from a lot of the out-of-the-box blogs you get on wordpress, blogspot, etc.
One test I like to use is to search for things to criticize. The worst I can come up with is that, if you look at the headers on the sidebars (like “Popular Ramblings”, “older Ramblings”, etc.), you’ll notice that the light grey peeks out above the upper corners of the headers just a touch. If that’s a criticism, that’s got to be one of the most nitpickiest critiques I’ve ever heard. In all honesty, that’s merely a style thing and there’s no law anywhere that says it should be one way or the other.
So, in short, it’s great.
Thanks for the compliments. I have few more smaller issues I am working on, but the “coding” aspect of the actual site is now basically done. The rest will just be window-dressing.
Glad you like the updates…