A few changes
The wizard behind the curtain spent some time last night and today changing a few structural elements and tweaking other areas of the site. It’s certainly not anything major or groundbreaking, but it’s probably noticeable if you’ve been here before.
As changes are made to the structure and content, the software used to administer this site updates the live version immediately. If you happened by late last night, things might have looked pretty strange as I was experimenting with layout components. I’m honestly still pretty frustrated with the sidebar component heads (and a few other things), but I should probably quit while I’m relatively satisfied.
This is a good time to mention that all of the many failures on this site (junk code, display irregularities, etc.) are completely my fault, but anything that looks decent or functions nearly adequately is only because of the great sites I have studied. I’ll never be able to create anything halfway as good as those I admire, but I’m thankful for the direction and inspiration.
In no particular order, I should thank: Erik, the evil genius behind Kartooner, for making me think about how images really add to a post (and for the most eclectic posts anywhere), John Martz who made me reconsider using Georgia as a title font because he did it so well on the old version of RobotJohnny, Angie McKaig whose constant site redesigns gave me a lot to think about, and Ryan Sims at JustWatchTheSky for the wide angle image style that I have shamelessly co-opted.
UPDATE: I had to change the default doctype in order to use the image shadow effect (thanks to Dunstan), but this introduced a whole new set of problems.
The images would disappear when the window was resized or if certain things were moused over, etc. Using BrowserCam, I also noticed that some browsers would display the page aligned to the left instead of centered. This was because of a tag labeled #Content instead of #content.
