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Site Redesign



Whew! I just spent waaaay too many hours squinting at source code, modifying graphics and fiddling with placement. But I’m proud to say the redesign of my site around the Pop Occulture theme is pretty much all done. You should be able to view rather significant layout and coloring changes while you’re looking at this page. If you don’t try refreshing your browser, or empty your cache.

Based on a few people’s useful suggestions, and my own desire to make various parts of my work both more coherent and separate from one another, you’ll notice that I removed the severed hand of St. Peter from my logo. Never fear though, it remains (with an awesome new coloring job) on the other section of my site, starting with the front page. If you click around, a couple of those links in that section are still incomplete, but I’ll be taking care of some of them tomorrow, and others over the course of the next week. So sit tight.

Meanwhile, there will be plenty of action here at Pop Occulture as my new brand, my new design have given me a new approach and focus, and I’ll think you’ll like where I’m going to go. And if you don’t… well, you can just go to hell instead. If you’re reading this though, chances are you’re already on your way! :)

PS. An extra-special thanks goes out to Alessandro Fulciniti for his stellar script which allows you to do rounded corners on a DIV using CSS & Javascript with no images.







11 Reader Responses

  1. Darkshadow Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 8:39 am

    Nice! I’m liking it. Heh, I really like the bubble for the quotes, too.

  2. Darkshadow Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 8:41 am

    Oh, hmm. It looks like you accidentally knocked out the “Preview Comment” thing. Or at least, nothing is showing up for me at the moment. Thought I’d just let ya know.

  3. hebrides Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 8:47 am

    the little pop occulture intro box below the masthead is a bit off-center. Did you mean to do it that way? It looks a little wierd to me. I’m big on centering shit.

    The rest looks pretty awesome. The star in the pop O, is a nice touch.

  4. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 12:48 pm

    Hm, I think it just looks off center cause of how the logo sits. ill see what i can do.

    good call, i hadnt noticed the comment preview got zapped. also the link styles dont appear in internet explorer yet

  5. Dan Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 2:31 pm

    The site is lookin’ is pimp. Great job.

  6. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 2:35 pm

    thanks! if only I could get this comment preview to work again. I’m zeroing in on the problem as we speak though…

  7. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 3:24 pm

    Well, I’ve got both the rounded corners and the preview working now. It’s coming up as an error in IE when on the main page though, cause of how I combined the functions. It’s looking for the comment preview code and coming up blank since there’s no comments on the front page. Anyway, nobody probably cares, but I just wanted to jot this down as a note for myself for later so I can pick up where I left off.

  8. Darkshadow Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 8:58 pm

    Hey hey, some of us are coding geeks and do like to hear this stuff. ;)

  9. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 2nd, 2005 at 9:08 pm

    Okay, well I’m not sure how to fix it actually. It works right now in both Firefox and IE (I don’t have any other browsers to test). The problem was that both the rounded corners and the comment preview were using window.onload function (). I guess to check for DOM support or something, I don’t know a whole lot about Javascript. I sort of just blunder my way through it. In any event, what I did was combine the two sections of script into one window.onload function () with two separate if statements inside of it. Now it works, but I know there’s an error. As I said, I suspect the IE error is because the front page has no comment preview, so it gets a “null” value for something. I’m just not sure what. Any ideas would be helpful.

  10. Darkshadow Says:
    September 3rd, 2005 at 2:14 pm

    Hmm, that shouldn’t really trip up anything, though. I’ll note that I’m using Safari on Mac OS X. I get the Null value error too (it further gives the oh-so-helpful comment of “undefined”). It doesn’t seem to be hurting anything, though.

    I have noticed one thing in Safari and Firefox. If I scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, there’s about an inch and a half wide gap on the right border on the “main” section (the part that has the white background). It doesn’t go all the way down to the bottom border - just stops abruptly above it.

  11. Tim Boucher Says:
    September 3rd, 2005 at 2:30 pm

    Oh yeah, look at that. I didn’t even notice it. I’ll see if I can fix it, but if not, I’m not too worried about that.

    Well, as long as that null value isn’t screwing up the site for people, I’m just going to leave it for the time being.



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