{"id":520,"date":"2006-07-06T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/time_for_a_chan.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:45","slug":"time_for_a_chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/time_for_a_chan.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Time For A Change of Scenery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got stuff to post about, but time is short and I&#8217;m feeling less than motivated, so it&#8217;s time to clean house around here a bit.  The look is a little old, but also a bit cluttered.  I like getting a lot of info on the screen, but it&#8217;s pretty cluttered now.<br \/>\nI made an attempt to redo the blogroll a couple of weeks ago, but I&#8217;m not happy with it.  I want to highlight the sites I visit almost daily, but leave room for others as well.  As it is, the &#8216;daily&#8217; sites are listed twice, which I don&#8217;t like.  I&#8217;m thinking of moving the blogroll to an upper, dropdown menu just under the old &#8216;Bird. Then I could go to a cleaner, two column look.<br \/>\nSo, what would you my readers like me to leave alone and what should I change?<br \/>\nI have a hunch the type is a bit small for some, true?<br \/>\nWhat on the side menu do you use a lot?  Categories?  Recent Comments?  Recent posts?  Monthly archives?<br \/>\nWhat if the main page only had an excerpt of the article and you had to click through to read the whole thing?<br \/>\nI may try a whole new look based on one of the styles from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestylecontest.com\/\">Movable Type Style Contest<\/a>.  Anything there (click the &#8216;style browser link) look good to you?<br \/>\nAny other ideas?  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