Comments on: Thoughts on the new theme?

By: jim

jim — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:52:45 +0000

It no longer vibrates on loading. So it’s an improvement.

By: son1

son1 — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:14:28 +0000

I think it looks good.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:17:12 +0000

Carthik, on Font size: I’m never clear on how fonts will render on other platforms. I know in the old days, Windows machines were for some odd reason set to be 96 ppi, so that a 12-point font rendered significantly smaller on a PC than on the Mac (72dpi). This was in the old days, though; dunno about now.

So: How does it look after you hit Cmd-+ a couple of times? Or whatever equivalent increases the font sizes in your browser?

One nice thing here seems to be it dynamically scales (reasonably) well. Some of the titles in the sidebar slip out of their gradients, which is odd and must imply they’re fixed-size graphics, not backgrounds. I’ll look into that.

By: Carthik

Carthik — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:00:51 +0000

The font sizes are too small for my liking, but overall it looks okay.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:46:10 +0000

Overall, the theme looks good, but I do agree that the celtic-style flora/fauna motifs seem not to connect well with the textual theme of the blog. But whatever!

By: Trix

Trix — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:35:28 +0000

Very nice. I like the fluttery butterfly thing, and not just because I’m a girly. Very legible and clean.