Sometime in the next four days I’m migrating this blog. It should be ALMOST seamless, using the same website, freerangelibrarian.com, with one exception: unless there are strenuous objections, I am streamlining so there is one RSS feed, version 2.0, full text, with comments and support for media enclosures, and the old RSS feed filenames will point (be redirected) to the new feed. I will continue to use the same URL for the Atom feed.
For you who read FRL through feeds without ever visiting the site itself, I strongly encourage you to check the website for Free Range Librarian next Monday to see if you are missing any posts. Things should be smoothed out by then.
Also, if you are all interested in an act of mercy, I have a Movable Type CSS template with dimensions in absolutes, and I would like it to be relative. I have no design sense. Movable Type doesn’t offer stylesheets in relative measurements, though the Style Generator offers a “liquid design” option. I tried creating a stylesheet through the Style Generator and it was uglier than King Kong. I plan to go to a three-column approach; if you’re using RSS, you won’t care, and if you’re following the website, you’ll see the features that now fall below the fold, such as Comments and On This Day. Anyway, if you like changing pixels to percentages, Help Wanted.
Posted on this day, other years:
- Council Resolution on Electronic List Participation - 2008
- O Glorious Day - 2007
- BookQueueToo Boo Hoo - 2005
- Upgrades to Free Range Librarian - 2005
- Nat Hentoff: Round Three on Cuba - 2004
- The ListenIllinois E-Audiobook Program: My Ears are Pea-Green with Envy - 2004
4 Comments
Um, I guess I like changing pixels to percentages…
I hesitate to volunteer without knowing more about what I’m getting into, but I’d be happy to take a look. My blog, See Also [http://library.coloradocollege.edu/steve/ puts the left and right column in pixels and lets the center column expand to meet the space available (though it works better in Firefox/Safari than IE). But straight percentages should be even easier, depending on what else is going on with the design.
Dan Cedarholm’s Web Standards Solutions [http://www.simplebits.com/publications/solutions/ has a very easy-to-follow chapter on CSS layouts, including a 3-column layout with widths in %.
Anyway, send me an email with some details, and I’ll let you know if I can help.
Karen, I was reading The Ten Thousand Year Blog (http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/) and David included an entry called Holy CSS Zeldman! I happened to read this after reading your plea for help on making your elements relative rather than static… Check out this part of it to see if it helps any… http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=3B56F&print=true
Cheers!
Allison
Yes, it’s convincing me I should continue to plead for help!
But thank you–it’s a great explanation.
Steve, on rereading your post, I will get that book; I like a book I can lay next to me to help me puzzle through something like this. I like your approach for several reasons having to do with varied plugins.
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