Too Much Information

Coo, it’s a redesign.

From now on, all posts pertaining to politics will sit to the left there, while other posts will find themselves in this middle column, unhelpfully entitled Other. All the navigational gubbins, links to other sites and the like haven’t moved a pixel. You may need to hit refresh. I’m not really sure I like this new layout (it’s a bit busy, no?) so everything may return to normal within the week.

For those who take an interest in such things, check the source and thrill to the fact that the page and column headers are rendered as CSS backgrounds, using a variation on the technique explained here. The changes have been tested in a thoroughly un-thorough manner, so if anyone suffers hideous glitches please send a screenshot and/or witheringly sarcastic analysis of the new stylesheet. Also, because there’s more stuff on it, the page will be a touch slower to load — let me know if it’s taking an age on a dial-up connection.

Note to Leon: proceed as normal, your posts will show up in the right place as if by magic. I hope.

Update: Oh well, the new look doesn’t work for at least one person, and I can’t recreate the reported glitch in any browser on Mac OS 9.2 or X. Except Opera, which totally mucks everything up. It should look like this, give or take a few pixels and some antialiasing.

Posted at 3pm on 19/03/03 by Jack Mottram to the site news category.
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