Comments on: Adventures In Extreme Makeover, Blogging Style

By: piranhtachew

piranhtachew — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:13:23 +0000

So Comic Sans is the pixie vest o’ fonts?

I still say that chart could’ve been simplified. :\

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:14:27 +0000

I think we’re on to something here, Paul.

With the Twins, the tradition is that the starting pitcher gets to choose whether the team wears the standard home/away uniform or one of the alternate navy jerseys. Last year, they wore throwbacks for all home Saturday games, but I’m not sure that’s the case this year.

We could have the author of a given post get to choose which banner goes up when they post their new article! (So just how many of these banner alternatives do you want to do, Paul, because you know if you leave it to us, we’re bound to end up using Comic Sans or text on a curve or some other equally offensive font!)?

Of course, when we do “throwback” days and use the old banner, we’re going to have to remember to delete the acknowledgement in the blog’s footer… or people may mistakenly think our Comic Sans/text on the curve banner was designed by Paul… and I suspect that might not be good.

I dunno… suddenly deciding on banners is starting to sound like more work than writing the posts themselves.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:31:59 +0000

I love the idea of home and away banners. The away one could have a gray background. There could be a throwback version in light blue with script lettering. Maybe a green one for St. Patrick’s Day that you could sell for charity after the fact.

By the way, going on the DL with a “weak leg” sounds like something that should happen to someone of Shea’s physique rather than Joe Mauer.

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:23:04 +0000

SeNDai, maybe we’ll have to have some kind of “throwback” day when we reactivate the old theme and banner for a day every once in a while! Hey, if pro sports teams can do it, why couldn’t we?!

As a matter of fact, Paul also did a “blue on red” version of the new banner for us… so maybe we could be just like the sports teams and have “road”, “home”, AND “throwback” banners!!

By: KL

KL — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:36:07 +0000

I forgot to check this last night at home, but today at work the gravatars are all present and accounted for, at least for me. Still baffled, but I’m not going to worry too much about it.

By: SeNDai Twins Fan

SeNDai Twins Fan — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:05:38 +0000

A second or third in agreement with James, that the new banner looks great! Thanks Paul!
Makes me yearn for seeing the old one as a reminder.
…as to the rest of the re-design; I like it. Makes this one of the easiest sites to access other Twins blogs. Moving up the list of ‘must opens’.

By: Jim Crikket

Jim Crikket — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:20:00 +0000

Thanks James!

Weird on the gravatars. We still use IE 7.0 at the office and they show up here. I wonder if this is a glitch in our theme or if it’s more universal than that.

I do know the new blogroll doesn’t work quite right with IE 7.0. Instead of just listing the 20 most recently updated Twins blogs, in order of how recently they’ve been updated (which is what it is supposed to do), in IE 7.0 all 34 or so of the blogs in our Twins blogroll are displayed, in the order in which we added them to our widget. The most recent post under each is still listed, so it does make for one very long blog list.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:19:54 +0000

KL, good for you. Fight the good fight against Comic Sans.

And for the rest of you, I’m afraid this is something of a sickness. You’ll be seeing it everywhere.

I should point out, too, since he chimed in, that my Yankee-fan co-author Shea has never lived within 1,500 miles of New York.

By: James

James — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:13:03 +0000

the new banner looks great!

By: CapitalBabs

CapitalBabs — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:05:51 +0000

the gravatar thing is weird – all of them are showing up fine for me on Mozilla.