I've made a couple of changes to the layout of adot's notblog* and even though most of them are minor, I thought it would be a good idea to note them here so no one thinks their browsers broke :-)
First, I've removed the short blogroll over on the left side while I rethink how to make it work better, or if I'm going to have one at all. Even with a list that short, links were rotting and I'm not sure anyone was really using it so for now it's gone.
Second, I pushed everything left a bit to give a little more space to the primary column and for the single post archive view I eliminated the left column completely to make the pages a little more functional in feed readers (like forumzilla).
Third, I tried to improve the visibility of the two Feedster tools underneath the archive links in the left nav column. To make a little more room for text entry I removed the search button on the Feedster search (just hit enter to submit the search and you'll get results for adot's notblog*) and I enlarged the button for the Feedster "table of contents" which gives a nice Feedster listing of all of the adot's notblog* posts.
I'll be making a few more tweaks, mostly to improve the site's appearance and usability in feed readers so they'll mostly be confined to the archives. I'd still like to keep some uniformity across the site so some of the changes I'll be making to the archive pages will probably bleed into the front page as well.
As with any of my updates, I try to give a quick glance at how things look in the lesser browsers and if it's not terribly difficult, try to make things display OK there too. If you see anything that looks broken in IE, Opera, or Safari, please let me know (patches welcome too).
update: well, I've done a bit more research and decided that rather than try to style the content for feed readers, I'd just stop linking to the website content from within the feed and start pushing the full post instead. I've updated the RSS 1.0 feed to "full content" and added an Atom feed (also full content) as well. If you're pulling down my feed(s) and have any problems, please let me know.
