In case you’re wondering, I’m tinkering my way toward a new theme design. For something different, I thought I’d do the development live, which means that as I start out there is very little here for styles. This approach lets you watch it evolve over time, and should help me catch any trouble areas as they occur. One oddity that I’ve found already is an inordinately high number of database queries occurring — in the hundreds, in fact, when there should be something in the low double-digits. Normally this is caused by plugins, but disabling plugins and changing over to an effectively blank theme hasn’t eliminated that problem, which is the reason the blog loads much more slowly than it should.
As I begin tweaking the theme, performance is one thing I want to go after, so it looks like I’ve got to get way under the hood and do some surgery. Just to mix my metaphors. Anyway, that’s what’s going on here… comments, suggestions, plugin recommendations, and WordPress tips always welcome.
in reset.css you need to remove this: font-size:62.5%;” and only give that style to body, because it’s progressivly shrinking your fonts with each nested div, paragraph, etc, making the text impossibly small to read. Hope this makes sense, i can’t read what I’m typing!
What in the world has happened to your blog? All I can see is very tiny type, and I don’t have a microscope to read with.
well … I happened along over here when you were in the midst of whatever and not only was there no theme, but the font size was like a 2. It was microscopic. After several reloads I realized you were tinkering and let it go.
Thanks, all! And Tammy, that’s exactly right — I had that style in the wrong spot, changed it back to 100% and we’re all good now ;^) Oddly, the font size was fine in the browser I was testing on, and I noticed it a while later on my laptop. Fixed it, then found your comments. Hadn’t realized the explanation right off, but now that you spell it out, I’m doing a forehead slap over here!
It’s better than your last layout – all the right hand columns overlapped part of the main blog, that was very frustrating to read – you had to guess the end of every line!
Yeah, that was an IE problem that I never quite got around to fixing… IE is a real PITA for web development ;^) The site does look better in CSS-compliant browsers like Firefox, as it will properly round some of the corners as intended. It’ll look a bit more “boxy” in IE, but I won’t try to hack that bit into submission. I do notice that the sidebar doesn’t display properly in IE7 (it starts below the main content column), so that’s something I will need to fix. At least everything stays legible, which is most important — provided I can keep writing things worth reading!