Some of my blog-readers may have noticed
the change in my layout. At the moment I'm just testing it (there are still some design problems...as you may
notice), keeping the possibility to revert everything to my old layout - in case :D
The reason for switching
to a 3-column-layout is that in this way I can better exploit the space on the webpage. Having two columns where I
can display information (on Blogger widgets) makes the page much more "reader-friendly". The more you can pack into
one screen-size, the better it is. User's rarely want to scroll down endlessly, and therefore widgets placed
further down on the page get less attention. Clearly you don't have to overfill it since then everything becomes
messy :) .
When changing the layout I had to edit the XML-source of my blogger page. What is a little awful is
Blogger's HTML code editor which is basically just a simple text-area. It would be nice if the
Blogger
team could implement a better editor which could support syntax-highlighting, code-formatting etc...The best
solution till now is to just copy everything to a local editor on the computer, such as GEdit (on Ubuntu) or
Notepad++ (on Windows), modifying everything there, and copying everything back online when done.
What is
really perfect is Blogger's flexibility from which the GPC (
Google Page Creator)
team could cut a slice. You can change whatever you want and the graphical layout editor will recognize the
changes. In this way you can add new widgets and content to your page without having to touch the HTML code again.
I
would like to reference the
http://blogger-hacked.blogspot.com/
site, from which I took the idea of a 3-column layout.
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Some of my blog-readers may have noticed
the change in my layout. At the moment I'm just testing it (there are still some design problems...as you may
notice), keeping the possibility to revert everything to my old layout - in case :D