David Alber » site design http://www.davidalber.net Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:25:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Site Revamp http://www.davidalber.net/2010/01/site-revamp/ http://www.davidalber.net/2010/01/site-revamp/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:50:38 +0000 David Alber http://www.davidalber.net/?p=684 I have already hinted that I read many articles that I feel are worth sharing, but never get around to writing anything about them. Explanations of this behavior include being busy, lazy, or not really having much to say, other than something is interesting. As described earlier, this leads to a build up in the various (lame) places that I store the links. To mitigate this, I have started using Twitter to make small posts about these interesting articles. That’s all fine and good, but that means my reader(s) has(ve) to check two places. I preferred the idea of having all of it in one place, hence the revamp of parts of the site. I am now using Lifestream to pull in my Twitter feed and displaying that in the new, right sidebar of the blog pages.

Since it has been a while since I messed with CSS, I had to tinker around with stuff for a while to get it right. I found some insight about float elements here and got a lot of help getting my second sidebar in place by looking at this example.

Consider this a technical preview for the moment because I have not modified all of the page templates to work with the new stylesheets. That’s why the tags page, for example, is missing its sidebars. I will fix it soon, but I need to move to another task for now.

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