Comments on: New Lies.com Theme, Various Things Broken

By: Patriot

Patriot — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:32:43 +0000

that wasnt the case with me either Rise Against

nice professional-looking design.

By: Rise Against

Rise Against — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:24:12 +0000

TeahcerVet - By bash you , I meant crush your false points and Dubya regurgetation that so often spews from your mouth. I would never personally insult you as a person, just your words and actions, thats all.

By: TeacherVet

TeacherVet — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:28:29 +0000

Rise Against, if it makes your day to respond to logical argument with simple vulgarity, bash away, bash away, bash away all. I was subjected to much greater verbal abuse during basic training, so perhaps I became hardened to it - your efforts are ineffective by comparison, but if you’re impressed by your own debate skills, knock yourself out.

By: Rise Against

Rise Against — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:52:25 +0000

Me too!! Great job.

The only thing I’m concerned about is that I think the conservatives can’t figue out how to use the new site, and I won’t be able to bash TeacherVet anymore!!

By: adam_blust

adam_blust — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:42:34 +0000

I really like the new design. Good work.

By: hossman

hossman — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:59:33 +0000

One slightly confusing thing i’ve just noticed:

The category archive pages list items from newest to oldest.
The date archive pages list items from oldest to newest.

not sure if that is the desired behavior.

By: hossman

hossman — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:48:25 +0000

Also broken is that the site design contains absolutely no official Lies Pink ™. Who’s with me?!

i don’t remember exactly what shade Lies Pink ™ was, but perhaps changing the
all the uses of #F5F5F5 to something like #FFE0FF wold be a subtle way to retain “our roots”

By: jbc

jbc — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:42:49 +0000

Heh. Yeah. I spent a couple of seconds trying to figure out how to print my debugging info to the error log rather than to the live site, and then said ah, screw it. It’s only PHP, after all; people expect it to be funky.

Anyway, I tracked down what was doing that. On the hardcoded-vs.-stretchy widths, I’m of two minds. Normally I’m all about the content, and wouldn’t want to force a particular page geometry on the reader, but I dunno; it is kind of nice to have a sense of what the thing’s going to lay out like.

The itty-bitty type in the sidebar is more of a concern to me. But I think I’m going to just leave all that stuff up to ymatt’s aesthetic judgement.

By: hossman

hossman — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:29:04 +0000

dude, debuging the cat list nav on the live site … i love it.

“I’m here with sort_column value of name”

“in list_cats with sort_column value of name in the hide_empty block in the dont-count block”

…reminds me of the good old days of web development at my company, where you’ deploy something, and then click reload real fast to see if it worked, and if it didn’t you’d copy the old file back as fast as freaking possible.

By: jbc

jbc — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 16:51:38 +0000

Some of the above-listed problems have been fixed. Remaining issues I’m aware of at this point:

The old, circular category icons aren’t being used.

Also, hossman emailed the following to me:

1) the font size of the right nav is really, really small. you might want
to just leave it the same size as the regular text.

2) having a fixed page width of 760 tends to be really frustrating when
your browser is significantly bigger (most of the screen winds up being
blank) or significantly smaller (the text all gets choped off)

i don’t suppose you’ve considered tweaking the theme to be strechy?

By: ymatt

ymatt — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 06:16:18 +0000

Also broken is that the site design contains absolutely no official Lies Pink ™. Who’s with me?!

We ran through a number of versions of the site, so if anybody thinks something looks just wrong or would prefer the site more minimal or would rather it all be in animated flash, feel free to let me know and I probably won’t make fun of you.