Redesign
by Kerim
The upgrade redesign of Keywords is now complete. Like I said, the new system should allow me to change things even more in the future, and maybe even offer a variety of themes depending on user preferences. However, I could use some feedback on the new design, since I want to make sure it looks decent across all platforms and browsers.
Here is what it looks like on my computer (click for a larger image):
If you notice anything radically different from this, please let me know! General feedback is also welcome.
For those new here, this is what it used to look like:
UPDATE: One thing that is driving me crazy is that on the main index page URLs are not wrapping, while they are on the individual archive pages. I have no idea why! Anyone?
UPDATE: Check out the new zeitgeist page! (Powered by the Heat Map plugin.)
UPDATE: I’ve redirected my feeds to all run through Feedburner (except for category and comments feeds). Let me know if you notice anything strange!
UPDATE: I’ve implemented changes in response to some of the comments, as well as adding a section on my side bar with links to comments I’ve left on other people’s blogs.
A few design suggestions:
More whitespace! A bit of space between comments and links on your sidebar will make them easier to read.
The text in your blockquotes is hard to read — not enough contrast netween the light brown text and the off-white background.
Other than that, bravo!
Looks great! I’m just about to make the jump to WP1.5 myself. The theme system is so effin’ slick I can’t stand it.
What is the URL wrapping problem? I can’t see any obvious issues.
Thanks guys!
Mike,
I think your right, and I’ll see what I can do about those issues.
Drew,
The problem is hard to see, but if you scroll down to “Roundup” post you’ll see the difference betwen how the first link appears on this page and how it appears in the individual page for that post. And in the Grimsey post you can see it in the link inside the boxquote – which forces a line break on the main page, but not in the individual archive. Beats me why this is happening.
Hey, this is a really nice theme
Informative site too! I look forward to reading and expanding my brain 
Just so you know, your “Bio” link is wrong, you have a http// in there that is messing things up
Keep up the great work!
Robin
Thanks Robin. Don’t shave your beard!
K,
The difference is your external link image style sheet that’s at the top of your page — it changes links in divs that are class “entrybody,” a class that is not used on the individual post page. The offending line looks to be “white-space: nowrap.” If you remove that you will probably be okay. I imagine the ‘nowrap’ is there to prevent an external link image from showing up at the beginning of a line after a link, so removing it might cause the occasional wonky layout.
If you want to have the external link images show up on your individual post page you’ll have to apply that code to the “entrytext” class. I’m not sure why there are two classes — entrybody and entrytext — for what should be the same data, but it’s that way on other themes I’ve looked at so there might be a reason for it.
Hope it helps!
d
Wow. Thanks so much for sorting that out. I had noticed the two classes before, with something else that was inconsistent and which I fixed, but I missed the “white-space: nowrap” tag! Hopefully I won’t mess things up too much by getting rid of that. I’ll have to look more carefully at the differences, and see what the reasoning might be for having them.
Oh. I see why I missed it – its in the template, not in the CSS style sheet!!!
And its purpose isn’t for the displaying of the external images – but just for the little icon that appears after the image letting people know that there is a link they can follow.