oooh, fancy

[rone]

I've changed my journal's style.  I've set it up so my main page only shows one entry, because the "travel back in time" idiosyncrasy of journals/weblogs rubs me the wrong way — it's like reading manga but without the excuse of having its origin in a backwards language.

Comments

[sagespot.livejournal.com]

I like the new look and completely agree with the one entry theory. I might try it myself, as the backward motion of things kind o' chaps my ass.

Is it possible

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

to include a "previous 20" (or however many) link as well? Seeing only either a single entry or a month of titles makes it hard to search for something vaguely remembered (which I do pretty often in my friends' journals).

Also  i t ' s   a w f u l l y   d a m n   w i d e   for something that's all text except for a little 4x4 background image. I don't care that all the modern people anymore have 236 megapixel screens, I still think it's presumptuous of a webbage designer to assume that I want to dedicate even 600 pixels of width, never mind the 800 or 1024 I actually use, to viewing his grand creation without having to scroll back and forth. Imagine Pentomino peering at this through his monocular--one hand directing his eye across the screen, the other on a mouse busily scrolling the window right and left!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm, i actually tested it on my 1024x768 laptop and it looked good. I'm not fond of the fixed width thing, but you're right; if i keep my images to 640x480, i should probably keep the width of this thing to about 599 (NOT 600, YOU HAPPY, PAL?), even if it looks ultra-thin on mine.

I would suggest clicking on the link above the mini-calendar to catch up on more recent stuff. The one thing this style is missing is "next entry/previous entry" links. Nothing is ever perfect... feh. They're going to force me to learn how to write my own style, the bitches.

Monocular? I knew it! Nick is secretly Mr. Planters!

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

No strong opinions on the "back in time" effect, but this style seems to render more happily on my machine that your previous one, which had a habit of displaying "blank" comments. So it gets my vote.

Neato!

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Does it really not even allow you to specify relative widths? Wicked, evil LJ style designers must be spanked.

The month-of-subjects link atop the calendar is what I already knew how to find. It's helpful for searches deep in time (Did he post that last November, or April?) but not so much for searches deep in content (Damn, what was that band he mentioned in passing in talking about some Iraq war funding scandal?).

And not a monocle (which I have actually worn on stage for some silly German operetta), a monocular, as in a macroscope or tiny telescope. Now I have visions of Mr. Peanutomino checking out girls' cleavage from a distance as Ian Dury shouts, "You give me the ache!"

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hmm, i can't seem to make a link that specifies "last 20". Maybe i'll just abandon my grand conceit, since it doesn't really fix the problem.