Our Tahoe full of five is about 90 miles north of Los Angeles as I write on my iPhone. I already can see the sun and taste the smog. This will be Shepherds’ Conference six for some of our one28 staff. We all agreed last night (when we departed around 7:45pm) that there’s not much better on our Christian calendar year than a week full of man singing, Scripture marinating, book buying, and black coffee drinking among friends. You’re welcome to check the Void for updates over the next few days, but don’t hold your breath, I’ll probably be busy male bonding.
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yes and time for our annual coffee. you down?
Will you guys be visiting the college?
Clyde, down indeed. When is good?
Katie, probably not. We don’t believe in Santa Clarita. :-)
You haters and nay-sayers.
can we do a friday lunch or somesing like that? :)
This isn’t really related to your post, but I must say your redesign is way cool. It isn’t vastly different from the previous theme, so it has a nice “upgraded” feel to it, like Void 2.0 or something. Is the Quick Void going to permanently reside at the top of the page then? I do enjoy the 2-column layout.
Phil, thanks for the template props. There’s a bit more to polish, but in general I think it’s an improvement. As for the Quick Void in particular, do you like it in step with the other posts or did you prefer the sidebar?
I prefer the sidebar, if it matters what I think. The Quick Void is its own category and if it is mingled with the rest it no longer has its appeal as a quick peak into whatever is null and void with you.
I think I agree with Andy B. vis-a-vis the Quick Void being its own category apart from the wholesome and content-rich main posts. But a third column might make this template look a little too cluttered, in my opinion. The third left column would work if you perhaps made the fonts on the right and left sidebars smaller than the main font size. How cumbersome is it to edit CSS code on the iPhone, I wonder?
Andy and Phil, thank you for your feedback and suggestions. Let me offer a glimpse into my thought process.
Based on the data, RSS readers outnumber regular site visitors 3 to 1 (which may actually be closer to 4 to 1 since some RSS subscribers click-through to read comments, etc.). That tells me the majority couldn’t care less where the Quick Void is located.
In my previous three-column template, the left and right sidebar font was light grey 12px while the “wholesome and content-rich” main column was dark grey 14px. The current template also uses a smaller font for the sidebar, the meta, and comments. All that to say, I’ve tried that approach and still chose to go sans third column (at least for the time being).
The current approach intends to de-clutter the sidebar, enabling better navigation and putting content in the same place.
This approach also follows the popular tumblelog style and visibly represents where a Quick Void fits into the stream of posting consciousness. This also has the added accountability benefit of keeping me from posting 8 Quick Voids in a row and acting like a writer.
Besides, I kind of feel like now the Quick Void posts are sort of little rewards for enduring longer posts. Maybe I should start calling them “Hidden Treasure Void.”
Again, I appreciate your thoughts and who knows, it could change again any moment. That’s part of CSS world we live in. But for now I’m trying something different. Is for fun.
That makes a lot of sense. I hope you won’t mind if I adapt your procedure for quick posts on my own blog, since I also switched to two columns.