3.04.2008

Hinterspace: The Widescreen Edition

So, what with having some extra time on my hands (that whole unemployment thing), I've been browsing some blogs devoted to Blogger templates with an eye to updating Hinterspace. And this is the preliminary result.

I was happy enough with the basic Rounders 3 template and color scheme, but I've been feeling a bit cramped in what is a rather outdated width (740px).

I found that many newer blogs have gone with something over 900 pixels wide in order to gain a wider content area and wider or multiple sidebars. There's even versions of Rounders 3 with left and right sidebars already out there (on third-party sites, not Blogger), but I decided widening both the post area and the sidebar was better looking. Also added the official Dilbert widget and the LibraryThing widget.

The reason I characterize this as a "preliminary" result is that I intend to make part of the sidebar into two columns, implement a hack that will allow for post summaries on the main page with a "Read more" link to the post page, and various other nifty tweaks I ran across in my research.

Hope y'all like the modest update. :-)

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