marccsantos.com got a new look today. I wanted something minimalist and clean before I head out on the job market. The design corresponds to the visual design of my other job materials (CV, cover letter, dissertation summary). The face-lift isn’t complete, but I had enough done that I figured I would through it up there.
Problem: in taking done the old site, I also took deleted many of the images used for this blogger design. So… this site will have to go broken for a bit. I teach in 33 minutes, lets see how much of this blogger site I can fix in between now and then…
Update: K, ten minutes later and I think I’ll found every instance of the ole green design. Sh*t- missed the “about” me box border color. And these boxes look hideous. Headers are an abomination against usability. Back to work.
Update #2: Well, the stupid f#cking Purdue server decided to kick me off-line while in the middle of my revision, but I managed to make some more changes. I have to fix the dotted borders around comments, change the text-color for post headings, and get rid of the border around the “about” box (missed this twice apparently). But its gettin’ better.
Update #3: I’ll have to check this on a PC tomorrow, but I feel like I’m getting close to my new homepage design. I’ve got the font-family in place for my headers (font-family: ‘Gill Sans’, ‘Trebuchet MS’, Arial, sans-serif;
) and have got the borders pretty well done. The next big project will be to replace the ul li images in the sidebars.
Update #4: I haven’t found the time to touch-up the blog. I’ve been working on the diss (first chapter draft is creeping up to page 60) and have been working on job materials (CV, diss summary, letter of application Oh, My!)
