Website Tinkering

If it’s not obvious already, I’ve been getting bored of my current theme. I’ve been wanting to make a number of changes, but the biggest one is the use of two panes on the right for additional content instead of one.

The problem is that this doesn’t work the same for blog content and article content. For the former it’s great, but for the articles (especially tech articles) it’s often helpful to have more room for the main piece.

This all comes out of the desire to display my discovered content feed in addition to my “favorites”, i.e. the best articles I’ve written over time, in the sidebar soemwhere. Then I’ve got Twitter and archives as well, and I’m thinking about doing one of those tag clouds too.

Just some ideas.

Oh, and I added some syndication feeds for specific blog categories as well.

I’m mostly just happy that I did this all myself in like an hour, and the CSS worked exactly like I thought it should. I guess that CSS study I did a while back actually stuck. Now I just need to clean it up (assuming I keep it this way).

The other option is to go and find myself a canned theme that I like and go with that while I tear it apart and learn to use it as a model for an entirely new custom template.

Anyway, tinkering.

Do you guys have any preference? Does it help to have more content on the right side of the blog? Or are you all just reading the feed, so it doesn’t matter anyway? ::