More Mucking About

Another new theme, this time based on Cutline by Chris Pearson. Old theme seemed very slow to load pages. Needless to say, I will be messing up this theme till it’s twice as slow as the last one. Have already managed to add an extra image and three external calls to every page load. Let me know if it’s broken. It will be. ;)

Since I am no use with a camera, and impatient to boot, pictures are from flickr though obviously marked with a Creative Commons share-alike licence from their original owner. Most are of Richmond Park, which is about 10 minutes’ walk from where I live.

Original URLs for the flickr sources:

Cropping and compression errors are down to me.

One more thing I neglected to mention, leaving a comment now gives bonus points in the form of an inbound link, thanks to the ‘Recent Comments’ widget in the sidebar. Get ‘em while they’re hot.

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10 December 2006


5 Comments

Mathew Ingram

10/Dec/2006

Looks nice, Ian.

Bob Boydston

11/Dec/2006

I like the new look! But I liked the old logo with OUCH in a different color. It is a bit slower but blogs such as this can be. The GRAZR is great. Now that I know that you are a journalist (I didn’t know until now) I can see it in your work. By the way, whatever happened to the inverted pyramid?

:)

Ian Delaney

11/Dec/2006

Hey Bob - The Grazr was there before - which obviously shows that a new design was in order. Inverted pyramid??

Bob Boydston

11/Dec/2006

I graduated in journalism but never took a job as a journalist after graduating. That’s where I learned about the inverted pyramid technique which is used in newspapers. It basically states you provide your premises and conclusions in the first paragraph for two reasons. First, it allows the reader to get all the info up front. If they want the detail they can continue in the article. Second, it gives the editor the option of chopping down your article to meet space requirements.

Ian Delaney

11/Dec/2006

Ohh… *THAT* inverted pyramid. I thought it was some sort of feature on the old design. I reckon blogs can sort of mess around with that, though it remains a great general rule.

I aim for a descending spiral myself.


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