So, I have finally done it and had another redesign of this site Listen To Musak. The grey is the new green (sorry Jase), but green may become the flavour of the day again as I am not *sure*. I’ve tried to reduce the amount of effort Movable Type needs to make this site happen, and I think I have succeeded in that bit. All the same stuff is here for now, but I want to add some new ‘features’ by playing around with Movable Type, so now is the right time to do it. I have not updated the templates for Justin, Andrew, Dermot, etc. in the Man of the Moment section. That will come too.
While working through the final stages I discovered that this wasn’t the third version of Listen to Musak as I had thought but it was about the fifth. If you use Mozilla on the main page of the site go to ‘View’ –> ‘Use Style’ where you can apply the older style sheets. As I have tweaked the templates a little bit they do not render exactly as they used to but it was interesting to see anyway. I have decided that you can not have too many IDs or classes in style sheets and re-using elements where it isn’t the same content is a very, very bad idea.
One downside of this look is that the individual entries really do look better if they are of the lengthier format. Ah well, I really wish I was a designer!
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