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Half Hour Redesign

Redesigned. CSS changes only, took less than half an hour thanks to the zap style sheets, test styles and ancestors bookmarklets. I’m feeling orange :)

I’ve tested it in Phoenix, IE6 and Opera 7 on Windows. If you spot any problems in Mac based browsers please let me know.

Posted 9th April 2003 at 4:47 pm

This is Half Hour Redesign by Simon Willison, posted on 9th April 2003.

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  1. Looks good in Safari (v69) and Camino (Gecko) on Mac OS X.

    Richard - 9th April 2003 17:06 - #

  2. Ta - I just tried it in IE5/Windows and was amazed when it displayed right without any tweaks! That's the first time I haven't had to resort o the box model hack. I think it's because the only element on the page with a width is the menu, which doesn't have any margin or padding set on it.

    Simon Willison - 9th April 2003 17:10 - #

  3. Um, where is the redesign? Looks the same to me.

    Joshua Kaufman - 9th April 2003 17:49 - #

  4. Hit Ctrl+F5 - it sounds like your browser is caching the old stylesheet.

    Simon Willison - 9th April 2003 18:09 - #

  5. I hit Ctrl+F5, reloaded, emptied my cache, reloaded again. Tried Phonix, IE6 and Opera. It still looks the same :P Are you sure you're still using a new stylesheet?

    Joshua Kaufman - 9th April 2003 19:37 - #

  6. Weird... sounds like it might be a proxy/cache somewhere between you and this site then. You'll definitely be able to tell when you can see it - it's orange for one thing ;)

    Simon Willison - 9th April 2003 19:45 - #

  7. Well, it's certainly... different. Different, but nice - in an orange sort of way.

    Andrew - 9th April 2003 20:08 - #

  8. Why thank you :)

    Simon Willison - 9th April 2003 20:12 - #

  9. Strange. Knowing full well that Phoenix has caching issues, I loaded up your page in IE6 (fresh install; def hadn't been to your site with it). Still grey. Get home, and Phoenix gives me a very nice orange site.

    Paul Freeman - 9th April 2003 20:18 - #

  10. Wow, that was a suprise, first instance I saw it I thought "How can my bookmark have gone to the wrong place" :) Hurrah for Orange :) (PS. Andrew you got your Blog URL wrong!)

    Swannie - 9th April 2003 20:33 - #

  11. Hmm ... is this a trial period, or are you dead-set on being so, um, orangey? No offense.

    Joe Grossberg - 9th April 2003 20:54 - #

  12. It's more of a "I'm bored of grey" thing than anything else. Some day I want to sit down and come up with something really pretty, but for the moment at least this is a bit more colourful.

    Simon Willison - 9th April 2003 20:57 - #

  13. Well, now we see what happens when you use a random number generator to decide your RGB values. ;-) I suppose what really matters is that you keep blogging to the same standard Simon. Keep up the good work. Matt. :-)

    Matt Southerden - 9th April 2003 22:03 - #

  14. Funny, your site looks exactly the same to me... in lynx! Had to fire up Moz to get the full glory of it. Looks great. And don't worry, we all wish we were Zeldman at one time or another.

    Micah - 9th April 2003 23:34 - #

  15. Micah: At first I didn't believe you really use Lynx (I use cURL for shell scripts; otherwise Mozilla or Phoenix). Then I saw your site looks good in Lynx. Then I saw that *my* site looks good in Lynx. Horray for standards-compliance and a lack of spacer.gif's!

    Joe Grossberg - 9th April 2003 23:53 - #

  16. I was wondering how long it would take before the first Zeldman comparison came along :) I just like orange (although I'm sure Mr Z. had a subconsious effect on my fondness of the colour).

    Simon Willison - 10th April 2003 00:42 - #

  17. came just to check up and got smacked with a flash of new colors. quite welcoming to be sure :). just another itch in my side to add an alternate style sheet to my site. i've been meaning to for a while. hope to do it soon.

    MyDimension - 10th April 2003 04:33 - #

  18. Just makes me feel a bit off-balance with the menu on the other side... Not that I have any preference for the position of a menu, it's just that when a site you look at every day suddenly seems to be a mirror image... I'll get used to it.

    francois - 10th April 2003 09:38 - #

  19. "Orange is a tightly-wrapped pill full of funk, psychedelia, dirty rock and roll, hot sex, and most of all, flavor." -- Orange, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

    Stuart Langridge - 10th April 2003 10:16 - #

  20. omg it's the Skunk, ello m8 :) nice site btw!

    Qui - 23rd April 2003 20:02 - #

  21. Heya, was just playing with the live css design and noticed this theme looks heaps better with a body background of light yellow IMO. Should look into it...

    Skware - 14th June 2003 05:49 - #

  22. nice colors of your weblog

    anette merker - 30th September 2003 22:18 - #

  23. Erm, is this still orange, cos i see the green stylesheet and the source points me towards that, how about support for alternate stylesheets perhaps?

    ReadMe - 6th December 2003 13:15 - #

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