Even though i’m supposed to be on holiday for the next week, I cannae resist tinkering on the intarwebs. So today i’ve given my tumblr blog a bit of a make-over:

before:

after:

• Widened the layout. there was s-o-o-o much wasted space in the old one. i think it was about 700px wide altogether. my new one is 1000px wide.
  
  
• Changed styling of post title, footer bars and sidebar headings to make them look a bit more ‘labelly’, which is kinda the look i’m going for.
  
  
• Changed link colours to match header bars and added text-decoration:underline on rollover.
  
  
• Stripped all ‘px’ text sizes out of template and replaced with the more uniformly compatible 100% + ems method.
  
  
• Changed formatting for quoted text.
  
  
• Centred images and videos within posts. The “align center” [sic] option when posting has never worked for me and, inspecting the generated code, it seems that it does absolutely fuck all. So i used some sneaky jQuery to add an “imageholder” class to any paragraph containing an img or iframe [as used by youtube] tag. Then set all such paragraphs to “text-align:center” [sic].
  
  
• Finally got round to doodling a logo
  
  
• Gave sidebar a negative top margin to lift it up a bit, now i’ve got quite a fat logo at the top of the page.
  
  

i think that’s it. Looks much better now —even if i say so myself!