Hello again (I think)
Looks like I’m back online.
I think my dissatisfaction with weblogging somehow gets sublimated into dissatisfaction with design – after what seems to be a nine-month hiatus, I give to you a new design and, potentially, a jumpstart back into writing words for Internetland. The new design is a go, I think. The inner obsessive is still fiddling with bits of code, so please tell me if something is broken…or, if you know how to fix my hyperlinks (which change black when you click on them, making it hard to find them again).
So, how are you?
Simon Job said,
Blogs seemed to have lost a bit of zing, compared with Twitter etc.
Re your links, this:
.menu a, a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #333;
}
is the problem.
the second part, “a:visited”, says that once any link is visited, show no underline and make it #333 (near black).
Delete the “a:visited” and links will inherit from the declaration at the top:
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #3963A6;
}
Ben said,
CSS genius! Thanks, Simon.
Re. blogs losing their zing, I agree. I wonder if Twitter and Facebook have whittled back our attention span to 140 characters…I feel like blog entries are long-winded and self-indulgent.
/Karen/ said,
I think the different mediums need to be more integrated. I find that what I would like to do is blog for the long stuff & tweet for the short stuff. In terms of /Karen/, Twitter is gradually taking over my Delicious feed, Current blog & ‘Story of my life’ posts. It fulfils the function that all those sections of my blog used to have. As a result, I don’t use those sections very often anymore. But it cannot fulfil the function of the long post (aside from linking to it) because of the very nature of the medium.
In practice, however, these days I rarely get to the long post, much as I would like to …