The Desktop – My New Layout
Well, I figured it was about time for a change. I've had the forest theme on here since I moved to the euicho.com domain, and frankly my website felt a little stale.
Although I haven't blogged about them much, some of you may know I have a somewhat-secret love affair with moleskines that has lasted for a few years now. Nothing quite compares to the feeling of undoing that elastic band, opening up to a fresh page, and writing down anything that comes to mind. One day when I was sketching website layouts in in my large moleskine I stepped back and realized that I needed to change my P.O.V.
The layout I wanted was sitting right in front of me! With that in mind I began making a list of the things I wanted on my desk and although I havn't incorporated all of them (I wanted it to look realistic, but not too cluttered) I'm so far very happy with the initial results. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them.
This page is meant to have a non-fixed width, meaning you can shrink it down pretty far and still read entries, however you may hide the random goodies like the magazine (which is really meant to be a website title banner with a dash of fun and humor) and latest photo.
The challenge, however, was choosing the height. I assume nobody is using a height of smaller than 800px in this day and age so that was my minimum requirement and that is why you may be thinking that moleskine is awfully short. My laptop is 1280x800 so that's not an unreasonable size, however on non-widescreen monitors it does look a little smooshed. I'll likely make a toggle button to switch from widescreen to 4:3 sizes in the coming weeks. If you are using a smaller resolution than that, lets face it: you need to come join the modern age. If you're on an iPhone your browser will scale the page, and if you're on another moble device that doesn't, use the rss feed.
I hope you all enjoy it, and as I said, if you see anything broken, or that you think needs to be added or changed, please let me know. All constructive criticism is welcome.
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June 21st, 2008 - 03:23
You do realize that I can’t read your site on the iPod touch or iPhone now, right? Kinda makes me crazy…
June 28th, 2008 - 10:36
Yeah, sorry about that, no scrollbar shows up, but if you use 2 fingers to scroll, it’ll scroll the entry text. Even though this isn’t a frame it treats it like one. Its really just a scrolling div.
The page loads fine and I can zoom and read fine on my iPhone though, so that should be working.
Anyway, I’m working on an iphone css as well so you can opt to read just the text, since the iPhone displays my rss feed as truncated even though it’s set to show the full text of the article.
June 28th, 2008 - 11:59
Scratch that, the new iphone theme is installed and iPhones AND iPod Touches should see it automatically. I’ll be tweaking it a bit to match up with this theme.