Hey, if you’re reading this in a feed reader click on the link and come see my new theme!
Yeah, I’m a restless soul, always looking for change and variety. I suffer from wanderlust, and I can never be happy with the same blogskin for more than a few months. This new version of Bookworm has bright colors, a one hundred percent liquid layout AND rounded corners (requiring a little extra markup but who cares), and an old-fashioned sidebar with everthing in it. Although I do prefer the cleaner look of blogs that have links & archives tucked away on separate pages, or sidebars down on the bottom, I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that it really is better to have that stuff where people can see it right away. (Do you agree? Disagree?)
I’ve also done a bit of housekeeping. I finally updated my blogroll to include some of the amazing bloggers I’ve discovered via the Salon and Weekly Geeks. I wish that list could be dynamically generated from my feed reader so that any time I subscribe to a blog it would automatically get listed here, too. Anyone know if that’s possible?
Anyway, I’d love your feedback on the new design. I work on a Mac and I have to do all my Internet Explorer testing via browsercam, which works pretty well but could be better. lt would be great if any of you IE users, especially IE 6 users (according to my stats that’s about 20% of you), could let me know if anything looks weird. And then go download Firefox. Let’s see if we can get that percentage down to zero! :)
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It looks great, Julie. I really like what you’ve done with it. I’m using Firefox and everything is perfect.
I like it. I also like when the archives ‘n’ stuff are visible links on the page. The banner is particularly cool!
It looks good from here too (Firefox 3)…and everything is organized very well: easy to find what you need.
Hi Julie! I love this one better. This layout, particularly on the entries is neater than your previous one. Not that the previous one isn’t neat (if you get what I mean). I also loved the fact that there are more available entries now per page :)
Although I kinda miss the book pictures and such :) Oh and I’m on Firefox so I can’t help with the IE thing.
Great design!
There is a way to have your feed automatically post to your site - I just figured out how to do it myself!
You need to register at yahoo pipes.
Click on create a pipe then drag the fetch feed block from the left hand menu into the central pane - then use the little + to add the feed urls of all of your favourite blogs. Once you’ve saved it you can then make a badge that you can embed into your side bar.
If you search for Sunday Salon you will see the existing pipe for that feed which will help demo how to do it.
Very slick, Julie. Love the search function… :)
Thanks, guys! I appreciate your feedback. :)
Crisp, clean, lovely! I’m a sucker for change, too… :)
Julie, it looks great in IE and loads fast and fine.
My son is a web designer, and he’s always trying to get me to switch to Firefox. Changes always scare me a little bit - unless he’s around to put things back if they go awry!
Love the new look!
I was always wary of changing to Firefox but I did it a while ago now and I would never go back!
Thanks!