Saturday, 2 January 2010

Moving the furniture around.

Due to the increasing length of the blogroll I'm going to be doing a little furniture rearranging, starting with a couple of new widgets and a three column layout which I've been meaning to play with for a while. So far I'm not sure I like it. It feels a little cramped so expect to see various changes until I settle down on something or reach a stage where I just can't be bothered to bugger around with it anymore. Feel free to throw opinions or advice at me in the comments but don't be offended if I end up screaming in frustration and reverting to a standard Blugger template.

UPDATE: Well here's one change I'm not happy with. I found this content advisory thingie at Uncle Bill's, and having just added him to the blogroll it seemed like a good time to half inch it.

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

Aside from the point that it links to a dating site, which shouldn't bother me but for some reason I can't explain does anyway, I'm disappointed in only getting a 17 rating. Clearly I need to drop the c-bomb a lot more and mention bestiality, devil worship, two girls one cup, and that George W. Bush is my person of the year. Bear with me while I check...
... nope, still the same. Apparently that rating is
...determined based on the presence of the following words:

fucking (34x) fuck (22x) gun (8x) bastards (7x) crap (5x) fags (4x) kill (3x) cunts (2x) slap (1x)
'Slap'? I could be talking about Mrs Exile's make up. 'Fucking' and 'fuck' I'm certain are both underscored, probably missing a zero on the end each. Much the same could be said for 'cunts' and 'bastards' while I feel 'kill' and 'crap' may be exaggerated. Oddest of all is fags - does that push my rating up because of anti-smoking hysteria or homophobia or both? Either way, fuck it, it's coming off the sidebar. I still think there probably ought to be a better content warning that I have so I may put it into the header image.

UPDATE 2: That bloody tag cloud is going to be a pain in the arse.
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3 comments:

  1. Bill Sticker2 January 2010 at 12:53

    Considering ditching the dumb thing myself. In terms of interactivity it's about as pointless as the proverbial broken pencil.

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  2. JuliaM2 January 2010 at 22:51

    The thre column layout looks fine to me. Some seem to set the middle column too narrow, but this one doesn't look cramped at all.

    'crap' and 'slap'? Good lord...

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  3. Angry Exile3 January 2010 at 02:42

    Thanks for the feedback. It's growing on me slowly. I still have a few tweaks in mind, such as making it a little wider to accommodate column margins a few px wider. And since that would mean redoing the header image I'm pretty much decided on adding a content warning if I do.

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