I updated the UI to “Version 2.0.”

The major changes:

1) The right sidebar is now in a solid box. There was formerly a dotted line separating the main content from the sidebar. I think this look is a little cleaner.

2) The dotted lines in the header and footer are now solid.

3) The post metadata (the text below the posts) is now a consistent size, regardless of where it’s being shown, and there is now a dotted line above and below the text.

4) The blue link color has been changed subtly. It’s not exactly the same as the lines and the header logo, but it blends better.

One nice side effect of the change is the site looks much better in IE. The look is now consistent in Firefox (Mac 1.5), Safari (2.0.2), and IE (Windows 6.0). I’ve been doing my development on the Mac lately and was surprised to see Safari and Firefox handle things almost identically, while IE tends to go its own way on some things. Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised; now that I think about it IE always did seem to go its own way on standards compliance.

I’m going to try and stop focusing on the UI for a while. (I know the UI is really plain, but it took a while.) My next area of focus will be Flickr integration. First I’ll fix the general display to make it more consistent with this new UI. After that I’d like to explore integrating the posts and Flickr photo albums using common tags. More on this later.

Sunday, January 8, 2006@12:44 AM
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