Tag: white lions

Got around to changing my journal's style. I'd gotten used to the Forest Green theme, which is based on the Bloggish layout, but in it only 470 pixels are allotted for the content, which is clearly not enough to comfortably place photos and read the friends feed.

I dug into Custom CSS and changed the size of the text field to 640 in width, and also increased the width of the sidebar, making the overall content width 1000. At the same time I bumped up the font sizes by a couple of points, since pixels on monitors keep getting smaller. For search engine optimization I moved the sidebar to the right, so the entry's content comes first and gets indexed, only it looks somewhat unusual, I'll have to move it back to the left and do an SEO layout; on my own site I managed to do this, and it'll work out in the blog too, a pity I don't know CSS well.

After changing the width of the main blocks, the blog's header turned out ugly, with a narrow image in it. I decided to put a more eye-pleasing picture in the header; a part of a photo of a white lion, which I mentioned here, worked well for this. After replacing the header, a change to the blog's color scheme followed; I picked the new colors with the eyedropper from the header. I didn't completely abandon the old greenish ones — I used them for the link colors. I decided not to change the background image either — it doesn't get in the way much and an alternative hasn't come to mind yet.