Site issues: Back to basics

September 16, 2007
By Billy Dennis

I’m experiencing some technical issues. I’ll be using the default theme for the time being. I’m pretty sure my next regular theme will be a smight SLIGHT modification of this one, anyway.

Update: I’ve settled on the X-Caliber theme, a modified version of the simple and elegant Kubrick, which moves the sidebar over to the left-hand side. I’m sticking with the single sidebar look, The drop-down menus for archives, blogrolls and pages helps keep it from getting too long. The one and only Google Adsense unit is now above the banner, where it supposedly will generate the most click-throughs, or so I am told.

I have decided to abandon any attempt to go with a design that put one “lead story” at the top of the front page, with single-paragraph links to others. I’ve had too many complaints, and where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire. I’m still going to look for a design that more resembles a news site, though.

And I’ve reinstalled the chat room.  I’ll keep it up as long as there’s no appreciable impact on load speeds.

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6 Responses to “ Site issues: Back to basics ”

  1. PeoriaIllinoisan on September 16, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    I something peculiar earlier this afternoon. NO ADS! And it loaded right up! I knew it was too good to be true.

  2. Murrel on September 16, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Welcome back to saner side of town.

  3. diane vespa on September 16, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    please define “smight”

  4. BJ Stone on September 16, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    Whatever that new theme was, I personally hated it. The double columns on the bottom…the fact that the “recent comments” only showed up about 1/3 the time…let it die.

  5. Mitch Mitchell on September 17, 2007 at 5:16 am

    Thanks Billy !!!
    This is much easier to read.

  6. Jonathan Ahl on September 17, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Billy, this is much better. Please stop messing around with your layout. How about you stick with this one for a while?