With Phil’s help, I’ve given SparklyTrainers a bit of a makeover to mark the start of 2013. To refresh the look and to rebalance the focus between Reading (less) and Travel (more), we’ve:
- changed the colour scheme from deep red to steely blue
- changed the sidebars (columns 2 and 3 on each page) for all the pages other than those in Reading
- brought ‘About Me’ onto sidebar 1, and removed it as a page
- moved the search down to sit below the archives, which are simple links rather than a calendar display
- moved the randomised Flickr photo feed from sidebar 2, to lower down in sidebar 1 (a bit too low, as you have to scroll to see it – that’s something to tweak)
- edited the text associated with the feeds
- repurposed sidebar 2 to display a tag cloud of the tags associated with entries about the places I’ve been to
- introduced a new page, for Where I’ve Been
- removed the Comment option throughout – far too much of a spambot magnet.
Here’s a souvenir of the old style SparklyTrainers home page:
