Illiterate Design

When it comes to redesigning your own layout. Have I ever mentioned to you how much I don't know CSS? When it takes you one whole day to rework the sidebar because you still don't know which left and right padding and margin affects what part of the lists. You know you got a long way ahead of you.

Then of course you realize that you still need to make sure it works well for all browsers. While that's where the headache usually begins, I'm afraid in this case, taking my painkillers is way past overdue at this point.

Fortunately the end result is always the same. Get it working no matter what the cost. Ok, that's not entirely true. Maybe it's not at the cost of sleeping. I must be getting smarter at this day and age.

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Nils wrote from on January 28, 2007 at 22:11 and said:

Padding? Lists? Good grief, rather you than me here. I don’t know a bit about these things. Take care, good luck and don’t overdo it. It’s just a blog. Right?

Not a chance at a little sneak preview somewhere then? Ah, well, we’ll see it when it gets there. Cheers.

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Kamigoroshi wrote from on January 28, 2007 at 22:27 and said:

Yeah it’s just a blog but then again, I’m always the perfectionist when it comes to doing things. Sent you something in the mail. Hope you enjoy that.

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Joy wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 00:41 and said:

Been there, done that. >

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korokmu wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 07:28 and said:

but that knowledge, you can create such a great and perfect design. If you know lots of CSS and design, your blog will be a masterpiece!

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Kamigoroshi wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 07:45 and said:

Joy: Then you’d know how frustrating it can be at times.

Korokmu: Yes it would wouldn’t it? Unfortunately I don’t have much time these days to go through the coding like a fine tooth comb. I do know how to push the limits of what I have, but not creative enough to start from scratch and thats usually where the trouble lies.

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ChickyBabe wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 17:20 and said:

More designing and less blogging, Kami, or do I have to get the pom poms out?

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Kamigoroshi wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 19:34 and said:

ChickyBabe in pom poms? Now that would be a private fantasy come true. That’s inspiration alright.

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PixelHead wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 22:12 and said:

What browsers do you check it in? I just check in Firefox and Explorer. Isn’t that enought?

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korokmu wrote from on January 29, 2007 at 23:08 and said:

dont start from scratch then. they way you modified this theme is great enough. Take another theme and make it as great as this theme.

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Kamigoroshi wrote from on January 30, 2007 at 06:44 and said:

PixelHead: Why Safari of course. I do have to get a friend for that too. Hard to test for Safari when you hate the Mac. But it’s usually IE6 and IE7 where that headache begins.

Korokmu: Heh, the way the theme got modified was that I stripped almost all the underlying CSS on the sidebar to barely minimum. Putting all the padding and margins back were the hard part.

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