Comments on: Stylesheets over substance http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/comment-page-1/#comment-497 Brett Holman Wed, 03 May 2006 13:30:26 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/#comment-497 Thanks, Sharon. You are right about the sidebar; taking out (say) just the blogroll and the page links would solve most of the problem. I have actually <a href="http://ionfish.co.uk/tarski/2006/03/26/111-release/#comment-253" rel="nofollow">suggested something similar</a> to the Tarski developers already, if they don't want to follow up on that I can roll up my sleeves and start mucking around with the PHP myself, but for now I need to get back to some real work :) I'll ponder your other suggestions, it does maybe seem a bit cramped, now that you mention it. (Or perhaps it's just cosy!) It might be an either/or thing -- doing one might help fix the other. Thanks, Sharon. You are right about the sidebar; taking out (say) just the blogroll and the page links would solve most of the problem. I have actually suggested something similar to the Tarski developers already, if they don’t want to follow up on that I can roll up my sleeves and start mucking around with the PHP myself, but for now I need to get back to some real work :)

I’ll ponder your other suggestions, it does maybe seem a bit cramped, now that you mention it. (Or perhaps it’s just cosy!) It might be an either/or thing — doing one might help fix the other.

]]> By: Sharon http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Sharon Wed, 03 May 2006 12:40:56 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/#comment-496 To fix the comments issue, you could take most of the information in the sidebar on single post pages only and either leave it out or move it down below the comment form, into the sidebar to the recent articles section (below the search box). Neither should be too difficult to achieve. You might still have to put up with it occasionally if you write any <em>very</em> short posts, but it would be fine most of the time. My only quibble with the design is that there could be just a little more vertical white space between the sidebar and the main column (by either adding a bit more right-padding to the sidebar or shifting the main columns a few pixels to the right). And/or maybe the font-size in the sidebar could be fractionally smaller than the main text to differentiate the two. It feels slightly cramped and lacking a distinct break between the two columns. Other than that, I really do like it. To fix the comments issue, you could take most of the information in the sidebar on single post pages only and either leave it out or move it down below the comment form, into the sidebar to the recent articles section (below the search box). Neither should be too difficult to achieve. You might still have to put up with it occasionally if you write any very short posts, but it would be fine most of the time.

My only quibble with the design is that there could be just a little more vertical white space between the sidebar and the main column (by either adding a bit more right-padding to the sidebar or shifting the main columns a few pixels to the right). And/or maybe the font-size in the sidebar could be fractionally smaller than the main text to differentiate the two. It feels slightly cramped and lacking a distinct break between the two columns. Other than that, I really do like it.

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/comment-page-1/#comment-494 Brett Holman Wed, 03 May 2006 07:51:40 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/#comment-494 Thanks guys (on behalf of Tarski's designers!) Clean is definitely what I was looking for. There are still a few things I can play with, but only one thing that I really think needs to change -- the way there is so much whitespace between the post and the comments, if the post is short (ie like this one). First time I looked at it I wondered where the comments had gone ... hopefully there is a way around that, or else I will just have to start writing longer posts! Thanks guys (on behalf of Tarski’s designers!) Clean is definitely what I was looking for.

There are still a few things I can play with, but only one thing that I really think needs to change — the way there is so much whitespace between the post and the comments, if the post is short (ie like this one). First time I looked at it I wondered where the comments had gone … hopefully there is a way around that, or else I will just have to start writing longer posts!

]]> By: Jack http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/comment-page-1/#comment-493 Jack Wed, 03 May 2006 01:42:51 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/#comment-493 Ditto to 'awesome', 'clean' and 'rocks'! Ditto to ‘awesome’, ‘clean’ and ‘rocks’!

]]> By: Jeremy Boggs http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Jeremy Boggs Tue, 02 May 2006 16:46:47 +0000 http://airminded.org/2006/05/03/stylesheets-over-substance/#comment-492 Awesome design! So clean and organized. And the comment form totally rocks. I might have to appropriate some of this for my own site! Awesome design! So clean and organized. And the comment form totally rocks. I might have to appropriate some of this for my own site!

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