Rough Cuts Revisited = Site Evolution
Yesterday I met up with some of my new-found MTB buddies and we did a 20 mile "killer loop" around one of the guys' home town of Belper, which borders the Peak District. The riding was amazing and I've now vowed our next house will be "in the hills".
Although I got back quite early at 4pm and had planned to spend the whole night (Karen is still away) working on codestore content I was just too exhausted to do anything other than watch TV.
What I did achieve is a slight tweaking of the homepage to make it feel more fluid and less boxy and I moved Rough Cut articles out of their own section and in with the non Rough Cuts.
You'll notice that the Latest Articles section over on the top right now shows the last two articles published, whether or not they are Rough Cuts. The last non Rough Cut was from over a year ago and the previous method display of articles made it look like I'd all but given up.
Rough Cuts is still a good idea (for me at least) and I'll continue this way of getting content to you as fast as possible. The alternative is that you wait indefinitely for me to find to the time to proof read and flesh out articles that are probably just as useful in their rough state. Most of you just want the downloadable NSF, right?
Today I'll finish off an article I promised this time last year. It's to do with HTML email, which is always a hot topic. The next article planned is equally as exciting and useful and planned for some time this month.
Will I ever finish off any of these Rough Cut articles? Well, to be honest, although I plan to, I probably never will. It's a fact of life when you're a family man and have your own business to run that there just isn't enough time to do everything. Labelling articles as Rough Cuts at least gives me a get-out clause for the poor quality of writing.
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Jake
Think you have a problem with your CSS on the homepage. The blog entries don't appear until after the right hand items.
What resolution are you running at Jon?
Sorry, should have included. Doesn't work at 1024x768 or 1280x1024
Fixed now. Damned IE. I should have known to test it more. That's what you get for tinkering with your site when you're knackered and sat watching telly.
The reason this came about is that I've been looking at Google Analytics stats for this site and noticed there was not a single user last month who had 800*600, so I decided to notch the width up a little. Not realising IE would complain about it.
At the moment IE usage of this site broken down at 69% IE6 and 30% IE7 (the other 1% are <IE6!). As soon this trend reverses I'll change the way this site is laid-out to take advantage of IE7 improvements.
Thanks for letting me know anyway Jon.
MTB = Motor Torpedo Boat ?
Jake,
The layout has been like that for some months for me. I thought it was because we have the Office toolbar down the right hand side, but I got rid of that and still I have to scroll down to see the blogs. We are at 800x600.
Hi Chris.
800*600 and IE6!? You're part of a fast-dying breed of user.
My reply above might have stated that there were no 8by6 users last month, but I've looked again and realised that, in fact, 1.47% of visitors were.
To cater for IE6 users at 800px means I have to keep this in mind when adding images to blogs. The images have to be <450px wide. Until recently I always stuck to this rule but found it was impacting the quality of the content I was producing and I decided you'd have to pay the price and not see the content where it's meant to be.
You know the answer - get a better screen/browser...
Fair comment - it's a govt location of course!