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When it comes to user interfaces, I should leave well enough alone - and stop futzing around

Published by Glen on Wednesday 07-Mar-2007

I keep wasting hours tweaking and re-writing my blog’s look-n-feel. No sooner do I get it working the way I like, that I go too far and then decide to start over with some other theme.

The most recent activity was to leverage a theme with lots of cool JavaScript. I wanted it to be flexible width (i.e. to match the browser) but went too far and it looked a mess. I restored and did it again but left it fixed-width. I like the results but I think it is slow.

So now I’ve turned off all of the cool JavaScript. So I keep asking myself, what was all the work for ?

Word to all the rest of you out there on WordPress blogs, get something you like and leave it alone. And avoid “upgrade-itis” <grin>

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3 Responses to “When it comes to user interfaces, I should leave well enough alone - and stop futzing around”

  1. Glen Says:
    March 7th, 2007 at 20:03

    spoke too soon … I received a notice that Wordpress 2.1.1 had a significant bug and I should upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately.

    Done.

  2. Roy Says:
    March 7th, 2007 at 23:00

    Hi Glen - for what it’s worth. I like the litle farm graphic at the top. It was gone for a while over the weekend I think when you were experimenting with a more spartan look and I missed it… :-)

  3. Glen Says:
    March 7th, 2007 at 23:47

    Sounds like I need to have a banner that states “I’m no graphic artist but I try and fake it every chance I get.”

    About the only thing I can’t decide on the current (and hopefully stable) look-n-feel is the JavaScript for the search and history. If it is causing too much load and slowing down readers’ experience, I should turn it off.