another new look

So it seems the last time I updated the look of awardtour was 13 months ago when I put forth the first “green” theme. Yesterday I finally put up an update that I’ve been tinkering with for months. I realize it doesn’t look that different but for me it looks plenty different. I had the majority of this theme done a month or two ago but just couldn’t get the text to look the way I wanted on the dark green sidebar and so I put it aside.

Then, last week, I saw some blog that used Helvetica Neue as it’s main font and I thought it looked so damn nice. Large bold Helvetica Neue looks so damn nice on the Mac and looks pretty nice on Windows. I was done the changes on sunday but was informed Auriol that it didn’t look right in IE6 (though Boris informed me it everything lined up in IE7). It took me an hour or two of going through of going through a diff of my old css file against the new one until I found the culprit (the modified search bar). I still had to do a stupid css hack to make the sidebar line up properly in both browsers.

I also removed the upcoming section from the sidebar because (a) I don’t go to a lot of concerts anymore and (b) the sidebar is kinda long. I’m also hoping to clean up the archives and, after unsuccesfully trying to search for something on my blog, I’m pretty much convinced that I’m going to redirect search to google.

So, what do you think?

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