Comments on: Theme Change (again)

By: Rohan Pinto

Rohan Pinto — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:00:58 +0000

speaking of spam and authenticated comments… I strongly sugegst you check out http://pamelaproject.com

trust me. Pam is just awesome, when it comes to web 2.0 technologies, a strong opponent of spam-bots/trolls, and knows whats shes talking about…

Pam’s made implementing “authenticated” comments so easy to implement… especially for wordpress users…

I have seen several auth contexts come and go.. but “infocard” is here to stay.. it’s microsoft… it may take a few years for infocard to go bust.. (like what happened to pasport), but my gut feeling is that “cardspace aka:infocard” is here to stay…

I’m throwing in openid and infocard auth on all my websites… someday soon we’d all be using it.. I’m sure… so do it now.. and not just be way ahead of the game, you’d actualy be advocating it by using it…

By: Why feed-reading users are important at Nerve Endings Firing Away

Why feed-reading users are important at Nerve Endings Firing Away — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:01:19 +0000

[...] believe content is king, that shouldn’t bother you. Of course, occasionally blog authors make drastic changes to their template and solicit comments which many of us are glad to oblige them [...]

By: Arvind

Arvind — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:14:07 +0000

Wow…..

The layout and the colors are awesome.
Good work.

By: Patrix

Patrix — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:48:45 +0000

Niket, thanks for your feedback. As with any theme on this blog, it is a work in progress. I’m trying to fix the archives too and also separate the ‘justify’ option for content and sidebar. BTW, the site looks much better in IE7 :) I haven’t opened IE in a while so dinn realize.

Rohan, thanks. I bet you have some solutions for the tech problems I’m facing.

By: Rohan Pinto

Rohan Pinto — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:19:29 +0000

cool theme partix. I like thois one better than the previous one. I like the 100% width…

By: Niket

Niket — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:00:45 +0000

You may want to increase the width of your links column (the black column to the right). In IE7 (go ahead, flame me :)) the search box is 25 px too long.

The archives run too long. May be you can add, on your wishlist, an expand-on-click list: show only years, expand to all months when someone clicks or mouse-overs.

Ads seem distracting. I don’t know why. I say that because I have seen other sites with a large number of ads, but they don’t seem distracting. May be it will take a few visits to get used to.

“align: justify” is a poor option, I think, for the right column. Its too narrow to “justify” the text. Left or right align is perhaps better.

By: Patrix

Patrix — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:59:04 +0000

Gauravonomics, thanks for fixing the comments. I had left a long comment on your RSS feeds post and then damn! couldn’t get to submit it.

You’re right about K2. It is extremely powerful and packed with features. But for CSS and PHP novices like us, it can be quite overwhelming to edit the templates.

By: Gauravonomics

Gauravonomics — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:55:09 +0000

Hey, thanks for the e-mail about the comments not working on my blog. A dozen other people also mailed in. It’s fixed now.

By: Gauravonomics

Gauravonomics — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:53:43 +0000

Hey Patrix,

I have a love-hate thing with K2 because it’s really easy to customize in terms of functionality but really difficult to customize in terms of aesthetics. I have taken it off too till I have the time and the css gyan to do it properly.

I’m facing the same “slows your blog down to a crawl” problem with MyBlogLog, although I haven’t removed it yet. Tonight then.

The font size looks OK to me, and the flickr pictures do look interesting. :D

By: Patrix

Patrix — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:42:43 +0000

Confused, thanks :) I did increase the font size. I wonder what resolution are you guys viewing it at. Any bigger and it looks like those large print books.

By: confused

confused — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:34:22 +0000

Pat,

This looks cool. Though font size is a little too small. Yeah, K2 is now kind of dated.