A new look
The observant folk among you will have noticed that I’ve finally changed the look of the blog. The blue, Mac-style theme was growing a bit long in the tooth.
The new theme is a rather attractive free theme from Web-kreation. It is called OneRoom and lends a change of colour and layout to the site.
There’s some work to be done. Sloppily, I haven’t yet had the time to update my own header image and to make sure it’s positioned correctly. I also need to do some work on the sidebar and a few other changes.
In addition to the installation of the theme, a whole bunch of updates to the plug-ins I use have been completed. I’ve once again reinstated the mobile themes, so the site should display appropriately formatted content for a variety of mobile devices.
On my IE7 the internal light grey strip appears last, after ALL the other content has been downloaded. This means that initially all the normal text appears in the dark grey outer colour, which is unreadable and confusing, until finally the stripe appears. This obviously means one has to wait until the whole page is loaded before you can start checking out the juicy content – keep up the good work, I check in regularly
Thanks for the feedback – I’ll see whether I can optimize the way the pages load. May be just on the first access, though. Once your browser caches some of the content, subsequent page views should be quicker.