Rory Franklin

I wasn’t entirely happy with my previous theme. It was alright, but felt a bit too rough and I really wanted to put something out that I was happier with.

So I have spent the last few evenings working on this theme and am much happier about it. There are still a few issues that need tweaking here and there, but on the whole I like it. I haven’t had a chance to test it in anything other than IE6 and Firefox though, so if anything looks broken please let me know!

I am having some issues with the side bar though. I want to change the "Recent Comments" section to have a » in front of each one, and the same for the "Nike+" section. The "Nike+" section seems quite tricky as the XML is causing a problem when putting in » as it is not a defined entity or something…

Any suggestions are welcomed!

Ok, well, I’m not really back in town as such. I’ve just finally redesigned my blog. Having seen Seth’s latest redesign, and Nicola’s new blog, I thought I really should get around to fixing this place up!

Unfortunately I’m not as design orientated as they are, so it looks a little rough around the edges but I am happy with it! There are probably a few issues I’ve not noticed (or that you think are issues and I think are supposed to be like that!), so please let me know if you see anything. I’ve only really tested this in IE6 and FireFox. IE7 might throw a spanner in the works and I’ve not had a chance to look at it on Safari yet.

I’ll post an update about what I’ve been doing in recent months soon! Honest!

Edit: Oh, if anyone can help me figure out how to replace a link within a H1 with an image, I’d muchos appreciatos it. I’m currently doing it a bad way (H1 inside the A tag, doesn’t validate) and would love to get it semantic and looking right!

Edit 2: I’ve fixed the above problem. I was being a spanner. Basically, I have my A tag within an H1 tag. I’ve set the A tag to display:block and given it a height/width the same as the header image. I’ve then used text-index:-9999px; to shunt it off the page.