This week’s EE adaptations to DOF
As I continue to learn how to use Expression Engine and CSS, tiny little adaptations for those who care.
As mentioned previously, The University™ is moving its College of Business into a wonderful new building. This means I’m carrying monitors, setting up a lot of computers, helping professors do their grading at alternate locations, and such. So it’s nice to come home and put all that aside to play with Expression Engine. But recognizing that not everyone (translate: almost no one) cares a whit about the software I use to produce this blog, it’s all in the extended text. Click on the link to read the rest of it:
My experiments with EE are pretty much the dictionary definition of “scratching the surface.“ Just little changes one at a time while I get the hang of it.
Next week, I’ll have several days in a row away from work. I hope to import a lot of material from my old blog (no automated way to do it, alas… just cut-and-paste) and change the appearance of this one for a more distinctive look. Here’s what I did yesterday and today:
Constantly playing with the link format: I have never liked the “underlined blue link” standard for web pages where all hyperlinks are in blue text and underlined. It distracts from the visual flow of the text, giving undue emphasis to what may be an incidental reference. So I’m trying to find a more subtle link format that still says; “Click me if you want to leave this page and see something about these words.“
The faint blue background with blue-black text is just visible enough on most monitors, but when stacked, it’s hard to tell which link you are selecting. So if you’ll hover over any link on this page it should snap to dark orange with light blue text. I hope the colors look good together, are readable by people who are color-blind, and by-gosh leave absolutely NO doubt as to which link you’re clicking.
All off-main-page links should go to the full, extended article text plus the comments and comment form. If you copy the permalink for a reference, or if you click on “Read the rest of…“ it should now deliver you to the complete article and such.
I think I got it figured out for the in-page-links, but the RSS is a project for another day. If you are using RSS feed for this site, the links still resolve to only main body text but not extended text or comments. You have to click on “read more” to get to the full package.
Off to bed - ridiculously early, because I’m beat.
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