If you’re upgrading to Movable Type 3.2 you should be okay unless you’ve got your own custom URL setup which uses MTEntryDate for the Monthly archives. In previous versions you could get away with this but seems they’ve fixed this anomaly, and rightly so, so you’ll need to change it to MTArchiveDate. Because this is a rather obscure use of the tag, probably only implemented by me and some guy in Bulgaria, the error messages won’t explain it properly and it’ll only be when you’ve decided to rebuild the whole site from scratch that you’ll figure out what’s going on.
But then rebuilding from scratch is never a bad idea. This site was getting a bit ragged, not that you’d notice but I was noticing. Three years of tinkering has left a lot of cruft about the place and some of those plugins I’d been using were a little bit rough to say the least.
So here we are. Spangly new design for the main page and weblog inspired by the inside-front-cover of a French comic I was reading (or rather, looking at the pictures of) – Il Pleut by Jean-Philippe Peyraud published by La Comedie Illustree, to give full credit. If it’s been translated into English since 1998 I’d like to know.
Most stuff in the new spangliness should be stable and working but there may well be “issues” and I’m aware of some tidying up that needs to be done in places. I’m also trying out a new comment spam prevention system which seems far too simple to be true, so let me know if it’s acting like a surly bouncer on your asses.
And I’m not completely sold on this shade of beige, or whatever it is. #fffaee is what we’re currently using, feel free to suggest a close alternative.
I’ll hopefully give a full guide to the new features later. Or not. Maybe I’ll just let you figure it out.
(Not tested on IE / Windows yet. Some things can wait until morning. Works in IE / Windows now.)
I like the new look Pete.
i do not at present…
bit bland & the layout changes are a little jarring
I love it. Definitely a huge improvement. And I like the beige. Hard to tell how it’s going to look with pictures, but yes, well worth all that hard work :)
I like it too. Clean lines, nice font size and style, and all the small print on one side.
One question/suggestion: can you make the main column auto-variable in width? You’ve got it fixed at a 500 pixel width, and an overall 800 pixel width. Auto-width wouuld allow those of us with wider screens to vary the main column width. This would not adversely affect those with narrower screen resolutions.
Clean, easy to read, what’s not to like? Maybe the serif font? But then change is good!
I like it, perhaps go a tad ligher but it looks good.
All looks good to me too.
The beige would be offensive to my delicate sensibilities if it was on a wall (’cause it’s pretty much magnolia isn’t it) but looks fine with type all over it.
Fuck, it is magnolia, isn’t it. I was cursing that colour when painting the old house the other month and now I’ve painted my site with it.
Infiltrated by mediocre paint schemes…
Ah well!
Nah, it’s not magnolia. I just got rid of a whole load of that at my ma’s. It’s too pale and well, classy. More ‘parchment’ or ‘pale linen’.
I like “#ffffcc”, or “pale weak yellow” to its friends. Try that.
Re: ffffcc
EEEWW!
No, I don’t think so.
Your monitor settings are clearly borked. Turn down your brightness and fiddle with your contrast and eventually, it’ll look ok.
Well, maybe not. I just liked the name :)
Of course, that’s a good point – thanks to our monitors, none of us are seeing the same colour anyway. I’ll avoid the continuation of that where I propose our eyes all see different colours from each other as well…
I’m viewing via the mcbride laptop and it looks ‘off- white” to me- neither here nor there. I dunno really- it’s sort of bright, but I don”t know why. It doesn’t make any sense. I knew where I was before. It’s all bang- bang this modern music!
It needs something, a dash of colour.
Garen – I was going to suggest sending me screenshots…
Jim – I am scared of colour. I ‘learned’ graphic design (if you can call it that) on a photocopier. But you’re right. Some colour would be nice. I shall have to grasp my fear and try some stuff.
Color? You could try porting some of this pastel sheepishness into the background, or over to one side – and lust let it swirl.
http://v2d6.sheepserver.net/gen/198/1328/0.jpg
What happens if I try to tag it?
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my mozilla color checker says FFFBF3.