22/10/03
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Many thoughts in my head, here are some of them
- I’m already working on a redesign of hicksdesign – probably combining my portfolio and personal site. I’m not sure whether to keep along the same lines or do something more minimal like Big Spaceship? There’s certainly room for improving accessibility. Do you have any bugbears? Sick of the scrolling box thing? Let me know.
- My logo submission was accepted for Waizilla, the Mozilla plug in for testing accessibility.
- I’ve just created a new application icon for my favourite text editor – skEdit, and it’s currently being used on the beta’s. The beta’s include a wonderful ‘colour blender’ feature, perfect for making tints of web colours.
- Mozile for Mozilla is great idea. It gives you the ability to edit a page from within a browser. Much like Macromedia Contribute, only free and completely cross platform.
- My new G5 is just fantastic. I just thought I’d drop that one in.
- Panther is coming! Until then I’ve been using the elegant Panther theme from C.O.T.L GUI Studio – makes Camino look delicious, and hasn’t screwed up my mac.
- While I’m on Camino, development is livening up again, with some fresh blood on board.
- I’ve been up keeping a seperate ‘sidenotes’ area, where I link to other sites/stories of current interest. Once I’ve worked out how to get the right URLs, I’ll add an XML feed for it.
- A List Apart is back with version 3!, with a fresh, sumptuous design, XML feeds and 3 articles by heavyweights Joe Clark, Doug Bowman and Dan Benjamin. It’s obvious that a lot of work has been put into redoing the site from top to bottom.
- I’ll be 31 next week. A shopping trip for a pipe and a pouch of fine tobacco are called for I think.
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quis said 1773 days ago:
I don't think you should go too far down the minimalist route, I like the way that the current design is a bit individual, less like a lot of CSS sites. And I don't really mind the scrolly box thing, especially since it isn't an iframe.Pulat Yunusov said 1773 days ago:
The scroll pane is of little use to me, it's not scrolling with my mouse wheel in Mozilla, and vast space is wasted above and below it so I'd rather not have the scroll pane. Besides, it evokes my iframe phobias but it's purely subliminal.As usual, overall, your blog is great. Thank you.
Dave S. said 1772 days ago:
Ah! So that was you who did the Waizilla logo. I stumbled across it the other day and wondered. I had said at one point I'd be up for helping with a bit of design work, but the other 'Zilla has been keeping me a little busier than I thought...Happy 31th. Might I also suggest a fine crystal decanter of Glenlivet to go along with that pipe?
Vinay Venkatesh said 1772 days ago:
You should post an icns version of that icon so I too can use it :)Jon HIcks said 1772 days ago:
Glenlivet is nice - I'm more of a Bowmore or Highland Park man meself. Anything with a bit of peat in it!Nice job on the Mozilla redesign by the way!
Dris said 1772 days ago:
Indeed, happy 31st! Great job on the Waizilla logo, it looks great!As far as redesigning, I'm excited to see what you come up with. I like your current design, but as stated before, I can't scroll overflow:auto blocks with my wheel (Mac in Safari, may affect others as well).
skEdit icon is lovely, much better than the original. It's a good program, glad you found it for everyone.
Finally, I writhe in jealousy of your G5... ;) Enjoy it, because I can't!
Dris said 1772 days ago:
Oh, by the way...I currently use your lite theme, due to the scrolling issue above. It looks fine, but all the archives and such above the content is a bit irritating to scroll past.
Anyways, have fun with the redesign, I know it'll look great!
Dysfunksional.Monkey said 1772 days ago:
You might want to have a quick look at some semantics information online. People generally come to a website for the content, not the links. Putting the links/nav after the content in lists is probably the best way to go, then apply CSS styling (& javascript for additional functionality if need be?) to that.I too have problems with the middle-wheel-scroll issue. Moz 1.5b/WinXP.
Apart from that, love the blog, hit every day.
Jon Hicks said 1772 days ago:
D.Monkey,You might want just want to clarify a few things. If you place the nav after the content, you need to add a 'skip to navigation' link. If you put it before the content, you need to add a 'skip to content link'. Visually, the links come after the site content, although they don't semantically. My feeling is that either way you need to create a way to jump past either the nav or content, so it doesn't matter in the end.
Also, my current nav is in lists, styed with CSS and spiced up with Javascript. What did you have in mind?
Everyone will have scrollwheel issues because I'm evil and use overflow:auto.
Dris said 1771 days ago:
Evil indeed!Anyways, sometimes layouts really need the markup to be ordered in a certain way (even if the sidebar must go above the content), due to the way floats are handled in various browsers. It shouldn't be so, but it is. So a nod to the skip navigation link.
Dysfunksional.Monkey said 1771 days ago:
I must sincerely appologise. I failed to mention the 'Skip to' link.The 'overflow: auto' issue isn't present in IE. And its quirky in Moz. If you middle-click a link in moz, but have it set to load in the background, the scroll magically works... sometimes. Hopefully someone's noticed this other than me and knows the appropriate steps to report this.