I've grown weary of the look here at salguod.net and think it's time for a change. I know enough about CSS to really much things up, but i'm going to have ago at it sometime in the future. I'm also going to try to streamline some of the areas. There's just too much going on in many places. The comment entry form area is particularly troublesome for me. Between the Tackback info, the Subscribe info and the comment form itself the actual comments get lost. I may go to a fixed width layout like many other blogs (See Greg's site or Messy Christian for an example) even though they irritate me. I hate the fact that I have this beautiful 15.4" 1200 x 1600 screen on my laptop and I only get to use a third of its width. On the other hand, knowing exactly how wide my site will be on every screen makes the layout easier to manage.
So this post is to hear your suggestions. What parts of the site do you use every time you come here and what parts do you never use. What parts really bug you or get in the way of reading? Should I stay full width or would you like the fixed, narrower width?
Oh, and if you know of a way to fix the way this site prints (go to your browser's print preview under the file menu to see what I'm talking about), let me know that too.
All I ever use is the main text section and occasionally the links. I never use the categories or recent entries section, or the archive links for that matter (so, that means most of the right side bar.) Maybe you could have a sub-page for Archives?
I also don't use any of the subscribe-to-comments stuff, although I guess the concept is cool.
Whatever you do, PLEASE don't throw up Google ads! Everyone seems to be doing that lately, and they're really distracting.
No Google ads, I've got enough clutter here already!
I think that most of the stuff in the side menus are things most people don't use regularly. But if you come back looking for a post from a month ago, or a link to a site that I referenced, it comes in handy. I might pare it down some, but I use the left side as my favorites. I click down most of those every day.
I'll probably just figure out how to liven up the colors and clean up this comment / trackback / subscription stuff and that's it.