Knowing Nothing – Japan, philosophy and bioluminescence

Oh, also, please tell me of any problems in IE5.5 or 6 browsers. I have a feeling the sidebar will be in the wrong place and the PNG images not displaying transparency (though I have attempted to fix it with a hack).

I would definitely reduce the amount of posts on your front page, as it seemed to take quite a bit of time to load. Or perhaps its not that you have a lot of posts per page, but that your posts are very long!

Maybe by keeping that “recent posts” menu in your side bar nice and close to the top you could swing 1-2 posts on the front page, but still have the links nice and handy for your viewers to see what else you have to offer. Just my suggestion.

Your design is unique and you’ve got some great images. I would suggest using the excerpt rather than the full content of your posts on the front page.

Thank you for the replies!

I had been thinking about what to do with the length of the page… I write infrequently because I’m busy with lots of things, but I tend to write extremely long posts. I’ll give the excerpt function a try then. Does it load much quicker now?

Nice, clean design on your own site, Chris!

(P.S. Any ideas on my sidebar? IE6 still throws it down. I fixed the PNG transparency problem though)

It looks pretty good. A tip, Try to keep your code valid. That helps a lot actually.

/Tobias

Tobias >> Which part of my code is invalid? I7ve run it through the CSS validator and the only thing that shows up is this:

img, div, a, li, span, input, textarea, { behavior: url(nikki/wp-content/themes/kn-eng/iepngfix.htc) }

.eng-link { behavior: url(https://michaeldowney.net/index.php?wptheme=Knowing-Nothing-Eng) }

The first is part of a hack for showing PNG images in IE6 and the second is a slapdash workaround I stuck in. If you know how to help me with either of them, please go here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/211390?replies=1

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/210809?replies=3

Thanks!