8:45:00 AM|||Scott Nolan|||

Web Site Design:
Decided to revise the blogger template for a prettier design taken from Point of Focus. I am curious what various readers think of it. I know - the comments stopped working (update: they work on new posts, but not old ones), I have to figure out why. My good friend Anthony helped me out by drawing up some dragonflies to replace the default butterflies - because dragonflies are cool, and there are lots of them by our pool every summer.

My Mom, her boyfriend, and two of my nieces are visiting from New York State this weekend and for Veteran's Day. It is going to be a hectic and fun-filled weekend. My the nieces have grown... they are lovely young ladies now, and it is harder and harder to call them by the pet nicknames I dubbed them when they were babies: Squishy-fish and Snuggle-bunch (Silly-stinkpot and Cutie-pie are not visiting me at this time). I gather Ikea and the Container Store are on the list of pilgrimages this trip, as are some of the monuments in Washington because of Veteran's Day.

|||113171734655479589|||8:58:33 AM|||Scott Nolan|||Testing a comment....9:26:29 AM|||Scott Nolan|||So it turns out that new comments work fine with the new design template, but old ones stopped working.

Republishing the entire blog does not fix it, but it took a while. Still a mystery.12:03:56 PM|||Scott Nolan|||So - a summary of comments from people:

- feed the contrast to make the text easier to read
- have the background on the dragonfly header fade both directions
- add some frogs
- make the main text area wider (I have mixed feelings about this as I am still trying to support some old narrow screen viewers)
- figure out how the archives panel can be close to the top in all browsers (looks great in OmniWeb, not so good in Firefox/Mozilla)
- feed the contrast in the archives section.

Good news, republishing the entire site does fix the comments problem, it just took a lot longer than expected.1:03:40 PM|||anthony|||If anything change your a:link from #7C53A2 to compliment your text so it is the same value but a different hue. I'd suggest, since your palette is very similar making use of text decoration (underlining) links to set them apart and identify them as links.

If you wish to maintain a smaller width of your body text, decrease the font size to increase your line width. Very few people use 800PX screens anyway - less then 5% last I read.