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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