Not so much a spring cleaning …
… as a much-needed complete redecoration. If you care to click through from the RSS feed, you’ll see I’ve been prettifying VCTB.
The more sharp-eyed (and web savvy) among you will doubtless note the similarities between this new look and the recent new Futurismic theme; I must confess, I took it as a starting point and rehashed it to suit.
It’s taken me around five hours of trial and error, but has taught me a great deal in the process. I’m quite pleased with the results, too – though I wouldn’t say this is the final version quite yet, there’s still some tweaking to be done. I am, however, pretty damn chuffed with the header and menu, if I do say so myself. That took about three of the hours.
Your feedback on matters of aesthetics and usability would be greatly appreciated!
I’ve been blowing the cobwebs out of the blogroll, too – if I’ve removed your site by accident, or if the link for you is wrong, or if you can think of a site that should really be there for the sake of my credibility, please speak up.
Cheers!
March 29th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Congrats on the revamp.
It does mean I have to increase text size to read it comfortably now – which is the same as for default lj settings. But that’s time for you.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Looks great. Although you’re a few fictioneers lighter…:)
March 29th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Yeah, I know – I was doing some tidying and accidentally deleted a load of links instead of moving them. I’m on the case!
March 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Much nicer. I’m a great fan of black ink on white paper.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I like.
Being the monstrous egoist I am, naturally I clicked on my own name on the sidebar, there. It takes you through to a ‘Not Found: I’m afraid whatever you’re looking for doesn’t appear to be here…’ page on my website. And, picky-picky, I’m Prof not Dr. But apart from that …
March 30th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Very nice. I will now resume reading it via the RSS feed and never see the actual site again.
March 30th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Very nice work, Paul.
March 30th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Looking good, mate. Looking good…
March 30th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Sharp as. I like it.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
As above, black on white rules.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
And, picky-picky, I’m Prof not Dr.
In his defence, your email address says Dr.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
It says ‘drac’, reflecting my degree from the Transylvanian University of vampirology. Or days Drac because I was promoted and couldn’t be bothered to update my email. And, now I come to think of it, little would be worse than being called prof. Let’s call the whole thing off.