Blog entries become "history" too quick Oct18 '05
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# (2 of 8): Matthom
5 hours, 17 minutes after the fact. (Tue 18 Oct 2005, 9:04 PM CST)
Josh - I just did these minor CSS changes today - so it hasn't been around for a while... Some of it was done rather hastily - and I agree with you on the header - the kerning needs to be tighter. I don't even think I want Futura as the font. I'll have to play around with it some more tomorrow.
What benefit does a PNG do? (out of curiousity - cause I don't know :)
# (3 of 8): Josh » joahua.com/blog
5 hours, 48 minutes after the fact. (Tue 18 Oct 2005, 9:35 PM CST)
Well, it's not lossy for a start. So you don't get compression artifacts like on compressed JPEG images.
This can of course mean that the file sizes are larger, but, as with GIF images, it's possible to use an indexed palette with only the colours you need, which saves significantly.
Also, PNG's compression algo is better than that with GIF images, so if you have two identical indexed images in GIF and PNG format, the PNG will give a smaller filesize.
It's best to use indexed images where they are graphically simple and/or don't have many colours. This means logos are generally good candidates, but you'd be mad to do it with a photo, because it would be larger (as palettes are defined in the file itself) and look worse (as the limit to the number of colours in an indexed file is far less than in another format).
So, summary: PNG can be indexed or true colour (up to 64 bit, 16bit/channel - RGB+A - alpha is optional), has lossless compression, and compresses better than identical GIF images. It can be used as a JPEG replacement for photographs, but the filesize will probably be larger than a decent-quality (carefully compressed) JPEG would be.
# (4 of 8): Dale » bluetrait.com
12 hours, 4 minutes after the fact. (Wed 19 Oct 2005, 3:51 AM CST)
I'm not sure about the colour of your right side bar. It's a little too dark for my liking, although I think the site looks better over all.
Good stuff.
# (5 of 8): Matthom
15 hours, 48 minutes after the fact. (Wed 19 Oct 2005, 7:35 AM CST)
Thanks Dale... I tried many different colors for the sidebar - I wanted something "red/orange" - and everything else was either too strong (deep red), or "bleached out," such as pink.
# (6 of 8): Jennifer Grucza » jennifergrucza.com
20 hours, 10 minutes after the fact. (Wed 19 Oct 2005, 11:57 AM CST)
Hi Matt - I think the color of the sidebar is ok, but maybe you could flip the color of your text to be a light color for better contrast against the darker orange.
# (7 of 8): Matthom
22 hours, 17 minutes after the fact. (Wed 19 Oct 2005, 2:05 PM CST)
Jennifer, thanks. A lighter text color in the sidebar probably would help...
# (8 of 8): Kamster » theartistsmantra.blogspot.com
2 years, 10 months after the fact. (Fri 29 Aug 2008, 6:08 PM CST)
Hey Matt,
Was reading your blog more and I just wanted to say (because no one else has) about your post that having a hierarchichal archive list in, say, your sidebar can potentially help people navigate to older stuff much easier. I for one find your "popular" and "recent" post lists very helpful (that's how I found this entry T_T), but as I was saying a archive list something like the default blogger archive really helps; It has a bunch of arrows showing years, and when you click on a year, it expands to include the months, which in turn expands to include days of the selected month. I find this really great because it also shows the title of each post, something which can be helpful if you're looking for a post on something (allowing that the blog author has proper, relevant titles on his posts).
And... you can simply compress the archive once your done with it so it just shows years again (this shouldnt be a problem unless your blog is like.... a dozen years old).
Anyways, yeah thats about all I have to say about finding old stuff
happy blogging!
kamster
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# (1 of 8): Josh » joahua.com/blog
3 hours, 59 minutes after the fact. (Tue 18 Oct 2005, 7:46 PM CST)
I recall Eric Meyer has voiced this concern before, as well, though a link eludes me (oh! the irony!) :P
On an unrelated note (and I'm sorry if it's been around for a while, I'm a guilty RSS subscriber!), really like the new design. My only qualm is with the kerning on the text in your "matthom" header and compression artifacts... it'd go well as an indexed PNG.
Quickly whipped up one:
http://www.joahua.com/matthomheader/full_logo_hifi.png 5029 bytes, PNG, indexed
http://www.joahua.com/matthomheader/full_logo_hifi.jpg