Meta: Site Redesign, Fine-Tuning Dept. 0

It’s been a year since I redesigned the appearance of this site and it’s time to mop up some loose ends, as well as mix a few metaphors.

Since I started this blog, I’ve chosen to surround quotations with links, rather than to insert the link to the source elsewhere in the post, which is the more common practice. It seemed to me to indicate a direct quotation without requiring extraneous words–I have enough extraneous words already.

It was the first independent design decision I recall actually thinking about.

I finally took some time to figure out how to turn off the underlining in quotations, one thing I’ve wanted to do for some time now, because it truly clutters up longer passages.

It required changing this bit of css almost halfway down the stylesheet; the change took a lot less time than tracking down the culprit:

.posttext a {
/* text-decoration:underline */
text-color:blue
}

The “/* */” at the beginning and end of the second line “remarks out” (marks to be ignored) the underlining. The third line I added so that the text color would distinguish the link. (Remarking out the entry makes it easy to undo, if need be. Undoing is, fortunately, easier to do in HTML than it is IRL.)

I also changed the global “hover” quality (“hover” is when the mouse is held over an item) to display an underline by adding the third line below, for those who might have trouble distinguishing the color (the “color” line changes the color to a shade of red on hover). “Global” means this behavior will occur everywhere in this blog:

a:hover {
color:#753206;
text-decoration:underline
}

At this point, I have one more tinker for when that round tuit finally arrives–to make the dashes longer. (Update: Done!)