Observant readers may notice that thing look a little different around here. Very little different, so you really have to be observant.
First, I've changed to a sans-serif font. I know, radical move, I'm really living on the edge.
Second, I've changed the default look for blockquotes. Smaller font, black text, gray background. Now I'm just over the top, crazy.Third, I've changed the trackback section to have a gray background too, with black text. I think that cleans up the trackback/comments area making it a bit easier to read.
Fourth, I tweaked the individual archives, adding categories under the title and removing the link to the trackback pop up.
Whatcha think?
I may try tweaking the colors a bit later. I know your waiting in anticipation.
You can now go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Upgrading is in the air. Ahh, so very sweet. I may do something similar with block quotes as well.
BTW, I think comments are fixed on my site. upgraded the Spam Karma.
I've seen the blockquote thing at several sites, notably Thinklings and Messy Christian, and thought it was pretty nice, so I stole it. The trackback shading is lifted from Movalog.
Glad you fixed your comments. It took me a couple of hours changing the CSS, searching the web for tutorials and scratching my head to get this change to work. I had everything right, but it still wasn't chagning on the site. I had to change the order of things in the CSS to get it to work. That may hold some insight into the IMG thing I struggled with a while back, too. Maybe I'll re-visit that. Maybe not.
Aint upgrading fun?
One of the things that set Apple and NeXT apart was/is the attention to typesetting and fonts. I had actually paid $$ to adobe for some fonts on my NeXT years ago, and I couldn't create my way out of a paper bag. Fonts 'R Cool.
Anyway, all of that was because Steve Jobs dropped out of college and sat in on a calligraphy class.
His non-urban-legend speech to Stanford last month is quite good, IMHO.
I like the block-quotes background color. How do you implement that?
Thanks, I though it helped visually organize things. Here's how I did it:
- First, figure out what the CSS id or class is (I'm still not sure what the difference is) that controls your blog entry text. Since you started with MT 2.661 like I did, it's probably the same, blogbody.
- Second, add in a section to control the blockquote tag in that class or id. In order to do that, you just add the tag name after the class/id name and before the first curly bracket. I had to add it in before the main 'blogbody' section of the CSS to get it to work. My new CSS entry looks like this:
That's it.