I’ve finally finished a completely new layout for this blog! You can compare this screenshot with a screenshot of the new layout or just compare it to this page. Anyway, here’s what I put in my newly updated colophon about it:

Version 3: Then, finally, from March 10 to March 12 I completely redesigned and rewrote a new layout, choosing to make it completely XHTML 1.1 valid this time. I redid the banner using the same photo and almost completely changed the style of the blog while still retaining some similar elements. The design was not really modeled directly off any other blogs, but the font scheme for the standard paragraph text is exactly the same as the one at the Wordpress website. The greatest change in the feel was the move to a single-column layout, without any sidebars. All relevant sidebar information has been moved to separate pages accessible from the top navigation bar.

This layout has been tested in Camino 1.0.4, Firefox 2.0.0.2 (Windows version), Safari 2.0.4, and Internet Explorer 6.0 (Windows version). It should look the same in all of these, except for these differences:

• Safari and Camino do not render submit buttons (eg: the comment form’s button) the same fancy way they’ll look on Firefox and IE. You may, however, see the font on the button in a different font, but that’s about it.
• Safari doesn’t render border: 1px solid #bf9960; for any of the input fields, anywhere.

I must note that, despite the fact that everything looks fine in IE, it was really frustrating trying to make it fully functional (although generally possible).

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