Thinner Header Creates More Page Real Estate
October 25, 2009 by Russell Hall
Filed under random thoughts
Hi guys,
so I'm gradually getting the header more the way I want it. It was way to thick before at 208px, but now I've got it down to 138px (which is about 35% thinner) and I must say it looks a lot better. It could even be thinner still but I've made it so the pencil sketch of my profile protrudes out of top by about 20px and that gives a nice 3d effect.
Later on I intend on doing a complete blog styling overhaul but I'm putting that off based on solid advice for some seasoned bloggers that have warned against spending heaps of time redesigning during the first 3 months because the main thing to focus on is content.
The thing about header width (and this is my main point in this post) is that they demand so much of the above-the-fold page real estate,.. and therefore, unless that real estate is being optimized (either visually or content wise) then having a wide header just takes up too much of that above-the-fold page area (i.e. the part of the webpage that gets seen in the browser first off without having to scroll down).
Home page changed.
I mentioned in an earlier post in this Random Thoughts category that I was going to work on the home page layout a bit more, so now I actually have arranged for the home page to show the latest posts instead of the default "lifestyle" feature article boxes (they can look great when set up with the featured content gallery image slideshows but right now I just don't have the time for that and seeing as I've decided that the design for RussRave MkII will be along the plain and simple lines it would be a bit pointless of spending time focusing on a different styling.
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QuickPress Needs Work
October 23, 2009 by Russell Hall
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Just playing around with this Quickpress panel. If you came here via Twitter to see what was happening,.. sorry to disappoint with a relatively meaningless test post!
Post-edit note: Quickpress is kind of useless because you can't assign any category from the Quickpress panel. If you select "Save Draft" from the Quickpress panel then you might as well just select "post/add-new" from the admin panel and go the normal route. I think in the meantime the thing to do would be to assign a different default category that applies to "QuickPress"… now to go and find it,..probably in the WP-admin file somewhere. If I have a default category set to either "Random Thoughts" or "Quickpress" it would be much better than it auto-filing into "Uncategorized" which makes it look like the author (me) either forgot to categorize the post or doesn't really know where the post fits,.. which isn't the case!
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