Sorry, I’ve been playing around with the design. I’ve also re-instated the left column for the search, site meter and the Flippery Fish nonsense, plus the list of recent posts. It’s hard to know what’s best – but it looks fine on my monitor (which is set at 1280 x 1024) and I’ll check it later on a lower resolution. Some blogs look quite strange on my monitor, with large spaces on both sides and a comparatively thin stream of text in the middle, whereas this design should adjust according to your display setup.

I’ve been having big problems with my email over the last few days, and no-one seemed to be willing to admit responsibility (it’s either the company that hosts my domain or Netvigator). After much complaining to everyone it now seems to be OK, but no-one has claimed any credit for fixing it.

Netvigator sent me an email a few months back saying that they would now be offering me 24×7 support, but so far all that seems to mean is that I can speak to someone who can’t solve the problem, and fixing it still takes a few days. Or when they have a serious problem I can’t even get through to their support line because everyone else is calling, and my so-called priority service counts for nothing.

UPDATE: They have now admitted to blocking my email, but don’t know why. They just starting blocking it and then stopped blocking it. So that’s OK, then.

If there’s too much green, please let me know and I’ll see what I can do. Just call the usual number, enter ‘2’, ‘1’, ‘3’, enter your 10 digit account number, and our customer service representative will be right with you.

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6 responses to “Is it too green?”

  1. fumier avatar

    Nice layout. Get back to you on the green.

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  2. shaky avatar

    Gone pear shaped for me on 1152 x 864.

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  3. Chris avatar

    Sorry Shaky, but I can’t test that, I’m afraid. My setup won’t let me select that resolution. Pear shaped in any particular way?

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  4. shaky avatar

    Seems to be back to normal now! Before it had the header and the two sidebars, then a big blank space and then the content way down below.

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  5. dave avatar

    It works fine for me on Windows and Linux, IE and Mozilla, and if I scrunch the screen down to 800×600 or make the text really big. You might want to consider defining the sidebars width in ’em’s rather ‘px’ so that they scale up and down with bigger and smaller fonts as well, but that’s a minor quibble.
    It’s all in the right places at 640×480, but the central column is a bit narrow.
    Re: the mail:
    What was the exact problem? Can’t send out? Can’t receive?

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  6. Chris avatar

    I’m a bit limited as far as the design is concerned because of the way Typepad works. I’d really prefer narrower side bars with smaller type, but that doesn’t seem to be possible (if I reduce it to the next size down it looks too small). When I have some spare time I’ll have another look.
    Most of my email goes through domain names hosted in the UK, and is diverted to my Hong Kong ISP. This has worked fine for 2 years, but then the ISP decided to block all incoming email from one of the servers used by my domain host. I could send out email without any problem, and receive it to some of my email addresses (including the one for this site). If anyone had explained what was going on, I could easily have diverted my emails from the other domain to my Hotmail account.

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