For an alleged artist, I've been remarkably negligent regarding the look of this place. HTML is not my friend. (Now Photoshop -- THAT'S my buddy.) All I cared about was maintaining the black-and-white-and-red-all-over color scheme, which was inspired by Daredevil's costume. (And not by the Nazi flag, as some of my detractors have opined). (Besides, the codes for those colors are easy to remember: #000000, #FFFFFF and #FF0000.)
But the time has come to spiff things up, or at least institute a triple-column scheme. All the better to make room for...
(...don't be hatin'...)
...advertising.
I'm considering it, although I can be talked out of the idea. I've resisted it for ages, mostly because some asshole newsdude in the midwest accused me of "monetizing" my (ad-free!) blog, which had acquired a farily large readership during Bulge-gate. Billions go missing in Iraq, yet this creep decided to snipe at those ghastly "monetized" bloggers...
At any rate, I've been wrestling with both my conscience and the intricacies of HTML over the past few days. What you see here still needs about 350 tweaks. There should soon be a cool graphic for the logo. I have no idea why the page looks so different on Firefox and IE. (Firefox is the superior browser, of course.)
All of which is my way of confessing that I'm kind of out of the loop today. Has Chimpy been chimpeached yet?
(I should have something substantive up later today...)
15 comments:
I'm happy if you include advertising. I think you do important work, and if you need to be paid for it than you should be. I hope the difference between conservatives and progressives is seeking what one needs, not everything one can get and then hoarding it.
Joseph, you know I love your work, so I would never begrudge your desire to make the production of Cannonfire a little easier on yourself, but--the green? Is killing me. KILLING me. Please consider at least a different shade of green? Or a different color text for the green (light grey might be a little more readable)? Please? Just something to think about.
i agree with the first comment. your thoughts and writing are worth any advertising.
joseph
I already like the new font you're using in the comments section, the old font was too large.
also like the changes with the left frame that provides links, this is already looking much better.
I don't mind if you have an ad or two to help defray cost of your blogsite.
here's a suggestion: I'll admit it, I'm addicted to your blog. Not this isn't Joseph posting this. So addicted that I would be happy to pay you something like $19.99 for a yearly subscription to your blog so that I can get emailed when you make new posts. Currently I end up having to check your website a few times a day to see if you have posted anything new.
Maybe the folks that pay $19.99 (or it could be even as high as $29.99)annually get a few more perks such as notification when someone posts a comment to their comment so anonymous such as myself don't have to keep paging back weeks to find out if anyone ever responded to their comment. And also get emailed updates to your blog.
just a thought.
Regards,
hopelessly addicted to your blogsite
May I suggest that you become friends with the W3C Validator? It's a bit daunting at first (eg, 300+ errors on your front page) but most of those are usually of no importance in most browsers. The ones that jumped out at me were malformed (comments ! rather than !-- to open) and using an XHTML 1.0 DOCTYPE with unclosed tags (old: BR new: BR /)
On Preview: bah, can't post HTML entities to explain; blogger.com thinks I'm trying to do scripting. Therefore, insert angle brackets above as needed.
Good luck !
A couple of other persnickety things with XHTML 1.0...
Ampersands occuring in text need to be encoded as entities. This may be out of your hands in comments.
Font tags are deprecated, and the way you're using them you'd save time and effort if in CSS (either an external sheet or a STYLE block in HEAD) you declared all H2 elements should be #FF0000. Or if you want to also use H2s that aren't styled, H2 class="whatnot" and H2.whatnot { font-color: #FF0000; }
ok, at first i like the changes in the layout, with the left margin filled with sites, etc.
but, geez; the green has GOT to go! looks like split pea soup. or something the cat rejected. or ejected.
sorry to be so harsh, but hey, you're the artiste, and this is just ghastly! and difficult to read because it is very difficult for the eye to focus on high contrast saturated colors, like black and red or black and green or red and green.
try to make the background green more subtle, like sage or something. ratcht the saturation down about a thousand decibels. think more a color you would select for your stationary, so that the print rests easily on the page and the eye.
really; the screamin' green has GOT to go.
otherwise, looking pretty cool!
What green is everybody talking about? Your site is white with red and black. What am I missing? I liked the larger type but this is okay.
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