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	<title>Comments on: This may be the best blog design on the internet. (I wish!)</title>
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		<title>By: Rory</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-806</link>
		<dc:creator>Rory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m really keen on the larger font for the main text - excellent. I just wonder whether the font in your sidebar could be cranked up a notch or two. It is quite tiny. You could turn it up to 0.9em, or even 1em - although I think you might have to drop the sidebar h2 attribute down to 1.1em, unless you&#039;re happy with a bigger h2. Anyway, just a suggestion.

And, on a purely aesthetic level - and coming from someone who likes his CDs all alphabetised, and all his ducks in a row - I like the post entry to be in line with the post title. But take no notice of my minor case of OCD.

By the way, do you use the firefox extension WebDeveloper? It is a real beaut! You can edit the CSS on the fly. It doesn&#039;t make any changes literally, but it gives you an idea of what changes would look like. When you find something you like you can cut and paste into your &quot;presentation&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m really keen on the larger font for the main text &#8211; excellent. I just wonder whether the font in your sidebar could be cranked up a notch or two. It is quite tiny. You could turn it up to 0.9em, or even 1em &#8211; although I think you might have to drop the sidebar h2 attribute down to 1.1em, unless you&#8217;re happy with a bigger h2. Anyway, just a suggestion.</p>
<p>And, on a purely aesthetic level &#8211; and coming from someone who likes his CDs all alphabetised, and all his ducks in a row &#8211; I like the post entry to be in line with the post title. But take no notice of my minor case of OCD.</p>
<p>By the way, do you use the firefox extension WebDeveloper? It is a real beaut! You can edit the CSS on the fly. It doesn&#8217;t make any changes literally, but it gives you an idea of what changes would look like. When you find something you like you can cut and paste into your &#8220;presentation&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Rory</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-696</link>
		<dc:creator>Rory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hear you, Dave. Perishing Microsoft  :evil:  being a firefox user, I have only just found out that Internet Explorer has made mince-meat out of my menu buttons. I don&#039;t know where to begin.  :???:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear you, Dave. Perishing Microsoft  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_evil.gif' alt=':evil:' class='wp-smiley' />   being a firefox user, I have only just found out that Internet Explorer has made mince-meat out of my menu buttons. I don&#8217;t know where to begin.  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif' alt=':???:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-694</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rory, I really like the border too. Thanks so much for the suggestion. 

I like the layout much more after implementing the things you&#039;ve suggested. I still want to move my search section up into the navbar but I&#039;m having a bit of trouble with the formatting. And one thing I am always thinking about is that while it may look great in Safari, I just don&#039;t know what microsoft will do to it....

BTW, I didn&#039;t notice the fish hook until after I had posted my comment.  :grin:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rory, I really like the border too. Thanks so much for the suggestion. </p>
<p>I like the layout much more after implementing the things you&#8217;ve suggested. I still want to move my search section up into the navbar but I&#8217;m having a bit of trouble with the formatting. And one thing I am always thinking about is that while it may look great in Safari, I just don&#8217;t know what microsoft will do to it&#8230;.</p>
<p>BTW, I didn&#8217;t notice the fish hook until after I had posted my comment.  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':grin:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Rory</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-693</link>
		<dc:creator>Rory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, and you&#039;ve given your HUGE name a light shadow. Ha!  :grin: 

Did I miss that before?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, and you&#8217;ve given your HUGE name a light shadow. Ha!  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':grin:' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Did I miss that before?</p>
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		<title>By: Rory</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-692</link>
		<dc:creator>Rory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dave =  :cool: 

I think that&#039;s just about all I can say. (And then I&#039;ll go on and say more...) The border does it for me. I&#039;m a border kinda guy! It just seems to lift the site off the page. The buttons look cool, too.

The big question is...what do you think?

Oh, and thank you for the compliments. Was I fishing earlier? Surely not!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave =  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt=':cool:' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>I think that&#8217;s just about all I can say. (And then I&#8217;ll go on and say more&#8230;) The border does it for me. I&#8217;m a border kinda guy! It just seems to lift the site off the page. The buttons look cool, too.</p>
<p>The big question is&#8230;what do you think?</p>
<p>Oh, and thank you for the compliments. Was I fishing earlier? Surely not!</p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-674</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thanks Robyn. Ideas, ideas, ideas... never seems to be a shortage of them.  :smile:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanks Robyn. Ideas, ideas, ideas&#8230; never seems to be a shortage of them.  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':smile:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-672</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rory, Yeah I was thinking about a border around the sidebar and content too. Went to do it the other night but realized I had to do more work than just change my stylesheet. I&#039;ll give it a go after I finish reading the articles in the blog carnival you linked to.  :grin: 

BTW I like what you&#039;ve been doing to your site. Looking good. Really like the information box just under your header. Great touch.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rory, Yeah I was thinking about a border around the sidebar and content too. Went to do it the other night but realized I had to do more work than just change my stylesheet. I&#8217;ll give it a go after I finish reading the articles in the blog carnival you linked to.  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':grin:' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>BTW I like what you&#8217;ve been doing to your site. Looking good. Really like the information box just under your header. Great touch.</p>
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		<title>By: Rory</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-671</link>
		<dc:creator>Rory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dave, don&#039;t worry about my pickiness. If it&#039;s fine with you, that&#039;s what matters.

Colour is a difficult thing, isn&#039;t it. It is quite hard to find something we feel right with - and also get the right combination. I used a fashion book to get a combination of colours over at my new-look hamelife, but what I wanted to be a golden colour has just come out looking orange.

Hey, how about putting a dark border around the &quot;page&quot; div. Oh no, wait a minute, your theme is quite fluid. What about wrapping the content and sidebar in a div, and then setting a border around that? Or, perhaps your header could have a different background to the body, and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; your &quot;page&quot; div could have a dark border. 

Good heavens, I&#039;m not being much help here, am I.  :oops:  I just wonder whether a border would lift the content from the body. At present, the white against gray, without a dark border to break it, might be the cause of the &quot;blaah&quot; impression. Just throwing a few thoughts around, here. Something might stick.  :grin:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave, don&#8217;t worry about my pickiness. If it&#8217;s fine with you, that&#8217;s what matters.</p>
<p>Colour is a difficult thing, isn&#8217;t it. It is quite hard to find something we feel right with &#8211; and also get the right combination. I used a fashion book to get a combination of colours over at my new-look hamelife, but what I wanted to be a golden colour has just come out looking orange.</p>
<p>Hey, how about putting a dark border around the &#8220;page&#8221; div. Oh no, wait a minute, your theme is quite fluid. What about wrapping the content and sidebar in a div, and then setting a border around that? Or, perhaps your header could have a different background to the body, and <em>then</em> your &#8220;page&#8221; div could have a dark border. </p>
<p>Good heavens, I&#8217;m not being much help here, am I.  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif' alt=':oops:' class='wp-smiley' />   I just wonder whether a border would lift the content from the body. At present, the white against gray, without a dark border to break it, might be the cause of the &#8220;blaah&#8221; impression. Just throwing a few thoughts around, here. Something might stick.  <img src='http://daveolson.ca/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':grin:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-653</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rory, you know I think the colours are &quot;okay&quot; but kinda blaah actually. There&#039;s just no pop in the theme. I pulled the colour palette off of colourlovers.com and it works but..... Not sure what you mean about the buttons having an overhang. What browser are you using.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rory, you know I think the colours are &#8220;okay&#8221; but kinda blaah actually. There&#8217;s just no pop in the theme. I pulled the colour palette off of colourlovers.com and it works but&#8230;.. Not sure what you mean about the buttons having an overhang. What browser are you using.</p>
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		<title>By: Rory</title>
		<link>http://daveolson.ca/2007/03/30/the-best-blog-design-on-the-internet-is-here-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-652</link>
		<dc:creator>Rory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yup! The sidebar is much easier to read. And I&#039;m liking the navbar colour scheme a lot more. Are you happy with it?

To be ultra-picky, the buttons now seem to have a slight overhang. It might have something to do with the margin or padding attribute, or something.

All-in-all, it&#039;s looking good, Dave. &quot;Clean&quot;, that&#039;s about right.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yup! The sidebar is much easier to read. And I&#8217;m liking the navbar colour scheme a lot more. Are you happy with it?</p>
<p>To be ultra-picky, the buttons now seem to have a slight overhang. It might have something to do with the margin or padding attribute, or something.</p>
<p>All-in-all, it&#8217;s looking good, Dave. &#8220;Clean&#8221;, that&#8217;s about right.</p>
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