nixsight

[edit] Test over… thanks to those of you who had a look… I am sticking with the normal design for a while, as I think it’s ace, but may make a more prominent, less navigation-intrusive space for the ads in a third columnFor the next 24 hours, I am activating this new-ish theme for “nixsight” to see what people think. The main reason for a redesign is really just to take the advertising out of it’s spot in the left sidebar, and make it a bit more prominent, but also ignorable. I really need to do the advertising, as much as I’d prefer an uncluttered design, and in a weird way, taking it out of the main sidebar and giving it it’s own design element kind of achieves that.

Things I already know need fixing:

1. The permanent pages haven’t been formatted to fit with the rest of the design. Neither has the search page. Neither of those looks very nice right now.
2. The Powweb ad on the front page doesn’t sit right. Imagine it how it would be on one of the single post pages.
3. [edit] Just been informed that it doesn’t work in Firefox, but won’t have access to check till I get home.

Things I’m thinking already:

1. I like that you can reduce the size of your window and completely delete the ads. And I don’t think the ads take up too much space when the page is fully expanded.
2. I really like the header as a solid black band across the top of the screen, but I’m not sure if it works for this design. I think it would lend itself much better to a design without fully bordered boxes/panels. Also, while it looks nice with a reduced page, it looks a bit weird fully expanded, and I think would make more sense on a page that took up the whole screen.
3. I’m seriously thinking of adapting the original design so that it’s the same, but with these three columns, but I’d like to know what others think.

Please, please leave your thoughts in the comments box… although I already suspect that a lot of you will agree with what I’ve already said.